SEVEN BEAUTIES (PASQUALINO SETTEBELLEZZE) BY LINA WERTMULLER

The film features a dandy and small time hood, Pasqualino who accidentally kills his sister's fiancé thinking him to be a pimp who has turned his obese sister into a prostitute. There in the prison he does almost everything to survive. Then several incidents happen including his switch to a mental asylum followed by his rape of one person and his volunteering as a soldier to escape from the confinement. After the end of the war when he comes back to Naplesl he finds out that his seven sisiters, fiancée and also his mother are have survived as prostitutes.

Key casts are Giancarlo Giannini as Pasqualino, Fernando Rey as Pedro, Shirley Stoler as Commandant.



10 Reasons you should watch Seven Beauties:

1. The film was nominated for 5 Oscars.
2. Lina Wertmuller was the first woman director to be ever nominated for an Oscar.
3. Seven Beauty remains to be the sole example of a woman director's film grappling with the backdrop of war.
4. The film is exhilarating as well as sad.
5. The film is technically flawless with Lina Wermuller's superior direction and Tonnino Delli Colli's excellent cinematography.
6. The Italian movie has the touch of a political protest out of the tragedy.
7. The film is sometimes funny and beautifully made.
8. Seven Beauties is one of the top Italian language films ever made.
9. The film is one of the top 100 foreign films.
10. All film lovers must watch the film to witness a high class cinema.

I also recommend you to watch these two movies:

Swept Away: The film is about a relationship between a rich and selfish woman and a slovenly sailor.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon: The film is about the life of Francis.

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Lina Wertmüller (b. 14 August 1928) is an Italian film writer and director of aristocratic Swiss descent.

In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with Seven Beauties.

1963 The Lizards
1965 Let's Talk About Men
1967 Don't Sting the Mosquito
1968 The Belle Starr Story
1972 The Seduction of Mimi
1973 Love and Anarchy
1974 Everything Ready, Nothing Works
1974 Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
1975 Seven Beauties
1978 A Night Full of Rain
1978 Blood Feud
1983 A Joke of Destiny
1984 Softly, Softly
1986 Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1986 Summer Night, with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1989 As Long as It's Love
1989 The Tenth One in Hiding
1990 Saturday, Sunday and Monday
1992 Ciao, Professore!
1996 The Nymph
1996 The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics
1999 Ferdinando e Carolina
2004 Too Much Romance... It's Time for Stuffed Peppers

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