Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) (1976)
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Cast
as Pasqualino Frafuso
as Pedro
as Commandant
as Concettina
as Don Raffaele
as Totonno
as Francesco
as Mother
as Carolina
as Lawyer
as Socialist
as Doctor
Critic Reviews for Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)
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Its virtuoso style, demonstrating once again Miss Wertmuller's mastery of filmmaking, is used to tell us a story that's very opaque, despairing, and bottomless.
Although the transitions between times and perspectives and places are exciting and beautifully done, they are really transitions from nowhere to nowhere.
You can't take your eyes of Giancarlo Giannini who sells the film better than it sells itself.
Nominated for five Oscars, "Seven Beauties" remains a singular example of women's cinema grappling with the tattered shreds of war to get at otherwise unspoken truths.
Lina Wertmuller's audacious art-house hit is at once ruthless, sadistic and cynical -- it's also very funny, using its black comedy trappings to unearth laughs where none should exist.
With final words that are both exhilarating and sad, and [a]...message that maligns wars of all types...Wertmüller has crafted a political protest out of the tenets of tragedy
Audience Reviews for Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze)
No doubt this was an inspiration for black comedies depicting the war in later decades. The two leads are absolutely hilarious in their mishaps in the midst of such a terrible conflict.
Super Reviewer
What would you be willing to do to ensure your survival? Would you sacrifice your honor, your body, your soul? Would you murder? Is moral ambiguity permissable during times of war? The opening film footage of Hitler, Mussoulini, the Russian fronteir, and bombings juxtaposed against the narration of a litany of 'Oh Yeahs' provides a context for these questions. If you have prostiuted and murdered in order to live, is yours a life worth living? A brilliant and damning critique!
Super Reviewer
Though the film gets sort of laborious, I appreciated Seven Beauties for constantly taking risks. It's worth it to check the movie out.
Super Reviewer
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