Paris My Love

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 its 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 antineorealist amoral almost abstract comedy which anticipates Almodóvar a ferocious though gentle nonmoralistic portrayal of the 60s 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 comingout 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 nonconformist caustically witty A film ahead of its times still unbeaten