Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 60's boom and its broken dreams. The dialogue between Delia and her brother (played by Fiorenzo Fiorentini), when he does (or does not) tell her he is a homosexual, is memorable, a primordial coming-out, a masterpiece of allusions. But what makes it one of the first examples of a film with a "gay point of view" is the approach: perceptive, non-conformist, caustically witty. A film ahead of its times, still unbeaten.
Editing | Nino Baragli | Editor |
Writing | Vittorio Caprioli | Screenplay |
Directing | Vittorio Caprioli | Director |
Writing | Vittorio Caprioli | Story |
Camera | Carlo Di Palma | Director of Photography |
Sound | Fiorenzo Carpi | Original Music Composer |
Directing | Philippe Collin | First Assistant Director |
Costume & Make-Up | Maria Teresa Corridoni | Hairstylist |
Directing | Nando Cicero | First Assistant Director |
Camera | Alberto Spagnoli | Assistant Camera |
Writing | Franca Valeri | Screenplay |
Writing | Renato Mainardi | Screenplay |
Camera | Dario Di Palma | Camera Operator |
Art | Giulio Coltellacci | Production Design |
Costume & Make-Up | Giulio Coltellacci | Costume Design |
Production | Vittorio Musy Glori | Line Producer |
Writing | Silvana Ottieri | Screenplay |
Production | Alessandro Jacovoni | Producer |
Costume & Make-Up | Goffredo Rocchetti | Makeup Artist |
Production | Roberto Moretti | Production Manager |
Directing | Vanda Tuzzi | Script Supervisor |
Sound | Ferdinando Pescetelli | Sound |
Production | Alberto Giommarelli | Production Manager |
Camera | Franco Romagnoli | Key Grip |
Lighting | Elmiro Rubeo | Gaffer |
Sound | Alvaro Girolimotti | Boom Operator |