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Seven Beauties

Giancarlo Giannini (Actor), Fernando Rey (Actor), Lina Wertm�ller (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD

4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore, Piero Di Iorio
Directors: Lina Wertm�ller
Writers: Lina Wertm�ller
Producers: Lina Wertm�ller, Arrigo Colombo
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, NTSC, Import
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 2
MPAA Rating:
Studio: Paradox
Release Date: April 18 2006
Run Time: 115 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000E3L7L4

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In the 1970s, when you talked about women directors, there was only one name, it seemed, in the whole world: Italy's Lina Wertmüller. She hit her peak with this 1976 effort, starring the basset-eyed Giancarlo Giannini. He plays a small-time hustler in World War II Italy whose fate seems tied to his seven ugly sisters, whom he must support; hence, his nickname, "Seven Beauties." But he learns that he doesn't know the beginning of trouble when he winds up in a German concentration camp. There, he does whatever it takes to stay alive--including making love to the camp's colossal commandant (Shirley Stoler). Wertmüller's outrageous humor goes farther than that, including a wild sequence in which Giannini tries to dispose of a dead body that's been dismembered and packed into suitcases. Harrowingly funny and touching--Wertmüller, the first woman ever nominated for an Oscar as best director for this film, was never able to match it. --Marshall Fine

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1.0 out of 5 stars Swept Away, May 28 2004

Wm Greenwood (New York) - See all my reviews

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This is not the original R rated version I saw in New York City in 1977. It is edited into mediocrity! Sincerely, Wm Greenwood

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb on many levels, Jan 2 2004

P. Bianco "Trizi" (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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A unique and creative director, Wertmuller makes films for the thinker: as Seven Beauties unfolds, the viewers thoughts grow from interest to concentration to awe as she manages to combine many hysterically comedic moments in the midst of life's darkest struggles with the depths to which the proud can fall, given the circumstance.

Giannini depicts the pomposity of the common man who prostitutes himself for survival - ironically committing the same transgression as a woman for which he killed to start the whole anguishing sequence of events. The gifted actor uses pathos to maintain affinity with the viewer - in the end, your heart is with him despite everything.

That Lena Wertmuller succeeded in making the films she did in such a patriarchal society is thankfully to our benefit today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE PERFECTION OF THE ITALIAN COMEDY, May 20 2003

Boris Zubry "Boris Zubry" (Princeton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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As many other Italian movies, I saw "The Seven Beauties" for a few times. One time is never enough. Every time I saw it, I would discover more and more things (words, scenes, faces, mimics, costumes) that I did not see before or I understood them differently. As a good wine, it gets better and better than more you taste it and the more mature it gets (or you get). This film is perfect. The combination of the script, filming, acting, scenes, ideas, and music make it perfect. But Giancarlo Giannini makes it memorable.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Movie I've ever seen- bar none
"Highlight" of movie: Concentration camp prisoner committs suicde by dving into a cesspool. Need I say more?

Published on May 5 2004 by jamesstat

4.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorite films.
This is was one of my favorite films. I was a bigger Wertmuller fan before I started to watch Fellini and Antonioni's films. Read more

Published on April 1 2004 by Antonio Giusto