Seven Beauties
This Italian filmmaker, with her frank and uncomplicated view of Italian society, never ceased to use provocation, buffoonery, and the intertwining of tragedy and comedy to paint a vitriolic portrait of the human comedy. We present some new restorations that testify to his renowned and spectacular art of staging.
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties". A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
Lina Wertmüller
Lina Wertmüller is an Italian screenwriter and film director. She gained prominence in the 1970s for her satirical films, including The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, which earned Giancarlo Giannini the Best Actor Award at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, Swept Away, and Seven Beauties. The latest allowed Wertmüller to make cinema history by becoming the first woman to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Following this success, she directed A Night Full of Rain, a Canadian-Italian production, and Blood Feud in 1978, before taking a hiatus from filmmaking. Wertmüller returned in 1983 with a comedy, followed by her only entirely dramatic work, Camorra, in 1986. Throughout her career, she continued to direct, occasionally working in television and creating films that combined humor with social commentary. In recognition of her lifetime achievements, she received an Academy Honorary Award in 2019.
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Seven Beauties by Lina Wertmüller
Seven Beauties by Lina Wertmüller
Seven Beauties by Lina Wertmüller
Seven Beauties by Lina Wertmüller
Seven Beauties by Lina Wertmüller
Seven Beauties by Lina Wertmüller
Seven Beauties by Lina Wertmüller
