UW Cinematheque - Special Presentations
Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) | Italy | 1975 | DCP | 115 min. | Italian with English subtitles Director: Lina Wertmüller
Event Details
Date
Friday, October 28, 2022
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Wertmüller’s lusty meditation on the madness of World War II looks at the war’s impact on little people like Pasqualino (played brilliantly by a wide-eyed and wiry Giannini). After murdering a pimp who recruited one of his seven sisters to a brothel at the outset of the war, Pasqualino is arrested and conscripted into the army.
Wertmüller’s lusty meditation on the madness of World War II looks at the war’s impact on little people like Pasqualino (played brilliantly by a wide-eyed and wiry Giannini). After murdering a pimp who recruited one of his seven sisters to a brothel at the outset of the war, Pasqualino is arrested and conscripted into the army.
Cost
Free
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