Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Lina Wertmüller

Guionista:

Lina Wertmüller (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 enero 1976 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Guerra

Plot:

Pasqualino Settebellezze è un giovane malavitoso napoletano che decide di commettere un crimine per farsi un nome in quel mondo...

Plot Keywords:

Russia | Murder | Italy | Pimp | WWII In Italy

Premios:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

It's one matter not being innocent -- it's another being a whore

Reparto

Giancarlo Giannini	...	Pasqualino Frafuso
Fernando Rey	...	Pedro the Anarchist Prisoner
Shirley Stoler	...	Commandant
Elena Fiore	...	Concettina, a Sister
Piero Di Iorio	...	Francesco His Friend
Enzo Vitale	...	Don Raffaele
Roberto Herlitzka	...	Socialist
Lucio Amelio	...	Lawyer
Ermelinda De Felice	...	His Mother
Bianca D'Origlia
Francesca Marciano	...	Carolina (as Francesca Marciani)
Mario Conti	...	Totonno Concettina's Pimp, His Victim
Barbara Valmorin
Emilio Salvatori
Aristide Caporale		(as Aristide Caporali)

También conocida como:

Seven Beauties (International: English title) (USA)
Pasqualino: Seven Beauties (informal literal English title)
Siete bellezas (Spain) [es]

Duración:

115 min

País:

Italy

Idioma:

Italiano | Alemán

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Norway:18 | Argentina:18 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-18 | USA:R | Hong Kong:III | West Germany:18 (nf) | Australia:MA

Locaciones de Filmación:

Naples, Campania, Italy

Compañía:

Medusa Produzione

Trivialidades:

With this film, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director.

Citas:

Narrator: The ones who don't enjoy themselves, even when they laugh. Oh yeah. The ones who worship the corporate image, not knowing that they work for someone else. Oh yeah. The ones who should have been shot in the cradle... Pow! Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Follow me to success, but kill me if I fail...

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Fifth Element (1997)

It's one matter not being innocent -- it's another being a whore

Seven Beauties is a masterpiece that holds up as well now as it did 20 years ago. Pasqualino is a character whose life is shaped by a shallow, macho, code of honor. He continually swears to live his life by this code and to force the family to live up to this standard. He is broken hearted when he must abandon his "man of honor" image in order to escape hanging.

Without his standards, miserable as they were, Pasqualino survives by instinct alone. His character contrasts with the people that he meets when he is interred in a concentration camp. Most of the time he is so consumed by a his desire to live that he can't focus on or misunderstands the important things they try to tell him.

Although this sounds like a very dour movie, it is saved by the way Lina Wertmuller constructs the story. It is a non-linear narrative, with a word or phrase triggering a flash back for Pasqualino.

The music is extraordinary. The concentration camp scenes are horrifying (with Wagner opera as the musical theme) and the scenes set in Naples are sunny and beautiful but not overblown. You see the frayed edges of a poor town, although they're bathed in the mediteranean sunshine.

Pasqualino sums it up best when he says, "A rotten comedy, a lousy farce . .. called living." Lina Wertmueller made a wonderful comedy, a masterful farce . . . called Pasqualino Settebellezze.