Pasqualino Settebellezze

1975
R
1 घं 56 मि

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Giancarlo Giannini in Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975)

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Carolina
(as Francesca Marciani)

Mario Conti

Totonno

Barbara Valmorin

The Prison Camp Commandant's Secretary

Emilio Salvatore

Aristide Caporale

Madman
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Pasquale Vitiello

Luciano Foti

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Veriano Ginesi

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- Lina Wertmüller
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- Lina Wertmüller
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10tm-22

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.

8jamesrupert2014

How low will you go to survive?

After deserting from the Italian Army, small-time Neapolitan hood Pasqualino 'Seven Beauties' Frafuso is captured by the Germans and sent to a harsh prison camp run by a sadistic female commandant (Shirley Stoler) where he discovers just how low he'll sink to stay alive. The film is an intriguing blend of comedy and brutality as Pasqualino relives (through flashbacks) the events that brought him to the camp (including the murder of his homely sister's pimp and his awkward attempts to dispose of the body). Survival is the underlying theme, as Pasqualino, a small, unprepossessing man, postures and struts to maintain his place in the Naples underworld, then has to find food and shelter when on the run from the Germans (the scene of him chattering to a bemused elderly German woman while stuffing his face on stolen food is priceless), and finally decides that seducing the corpulent commandant is the only way to survive the camp. Throughout the film, the imagery is outstanding, sometimes colourful and bizarre (but not as grotesque as Fellini), other times monochrome and almost painful to look at. The film will not be to everyone's taste but I very much enjoyed it.

cwrobbel

A very influential movie in my life

I saw this film in the late 70's and ran the entire gambit of emotions while viewing it. I never thought I could laugh at such violence and at the hideous Nazi acts of the concentration camps and at the same time feel like heaving my guts on the theatre floor. I am going to have to track down a DVD of this movie to watch it again.

As good as Shindlers list was, I found it pale by comparison to "The seven Beauties". It is a wild ride and I can not recommend this film highly enough.

What disturbs me is that I have yet to talk to another person who has seen this movie.

And a side note: Madona should be crucified for remaking Swept Away.

Charlie

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tragic farce?

Editing, acting, lighting, pacing, they're all very good. The mix of genres makes me wonder. That something funny if not farcical is mixed in with the tragedy of WWII doesn't sit well with me, although I know that some will say that it is the crux. The best part of the movie was perhaps the introduction, the Oh, Yeah part. The scene wherein the two deserters come upon the mass execution has a beautifully grim and nightmarishly terrifying aspect. The whole movie has something of a bad dream, not in the least because of the seemingly realistic scenes which never could have happened and the use of black and white scenes that convey a sense that we have to do with a documentary. Surely, the director is, as Ingmar Bergman said, the magician, and if so, if the audience is being set up, it's only part of the show.

10tomrito

One of the ten best movies of all time.

I wish you could put this movie under the English title of Seven Beauties so it would be more accessible to people. This is one of the best movies ever made and more people should see it. I was in a state of awe from beginning to end. How could someone make a movie like this? It is hard for Americans to understand this kind of existence because we never have had to experience anything like it. Lina Wertmuller has made a movie about the human condition that our ancestors fought to protect us from having to face. If you want light-hearted entertainment, stay away, but if you want to see just what it took to live through the horror of war, you must see this movie.

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With this film, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The only other women to be so nominated are Jane Campion for The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021), Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation (2003), Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008), Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird (2017), Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman (2020), Chloé Zhao for Nomadland (2020), Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance (2024). Bigelow won first, followed 11 years later by Zhao, while Campion finally won hers the year after.

गूफ़
Seven minutes in, when Pasqualino sees civilians being cut down with machine-gun fire, there is no blood spray when they're shot and subsequently no blood on any of the corpses.

भाव
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... so to speak.' Oh yeah. The ones who say we Italians are the greatest he-men on earth. Oh yeah. The ones who are noble Romans, the ones who say 'That's for me,' the ones who say 'You know what I mean.' Oh yeah. The ones who vote for the right because they're fed up with strikes. Oh yeah. The ones who vote white in order not to get dirty. The ones who never get involved with politics. Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Be calm, calm.' The ones who still support the king. The ones who say 'Yes, sir.' Oh yeah. The ones who make love standing in their boots, and imagine they're in a luxurious bed. The ones who believe Christ is Santa Claus as a young man. Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Oh, what the hell.' The ones who were there. The ones who believe in everything, even in God. The ones who listen to the national anthem. Oh yeah. The ones who love their country. The ones who keep going, just to see how it will end. Oh yeah. The ones who are in garbage up to here. Oh yeah. The ones who sleep soundly, even with cancer. Oh yeah. The ones who, even now, don't believe the world is round. Oh yeah, oh yeah. The ones who are afraid of flying. Oh yeah. The ones who have never had a fatal accident. Oh yeah. The ones who have had one. The ones who, at a certain point in their lives, create a secret weapon, Christ. Oh yeah. The ones who are always standing at the bar. The ones who are always in Switzerland. The ones who started early, haven't arrived, and don't know they're not going to. Oh yeah. The ones who lose wars by the skin of their teeth. Oh yeah. The ones who say 'Everything is wrong here.' The ones who say 'Now let's all have a good laugh.' Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.