Paris, My Love
1962, Italian. Directed by Vittorio Caprioli.
Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the queer 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.
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Italian
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- Released
- 5 December 1962
- Original title
- Parigi o cara
- Country
- Italy
- Written by
- Vittorio Caprioli, Franca Valeri, Renato Mainardi
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Paris, My Love runs 106 minutes (1h 46m).
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Paris, My Love isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 December 1962. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Paris, My Love?
Paris, My Love (1962) was directed by Vittorio Caprioli and stars Franca Valeri, Vittorio Caprioli, Fiorenzo Fiorentini.