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Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister's lover, his confession and imprisonment ...
Sep 3, 2020 · Seven Beauties (1975) earned director Lina Wertmüller the distinction of be-coming the first woman to be nominated for a Best Director Academy Award. The film, which was also nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and Best Foreign Language Film, is the strange tale of Pasqualino (Giancarlo Giannini), an obsessive moralist with seven unattractive sisters.
Aug 26, 2023 · In the case of "Seven Beauties", I think that the showings of the English print at the end of the year were largely responsible for the Oscar nominations (Wertmuller + Giannini). It doesn't sound at all like the naturally gruff speaking voice of Giannini (who was famous for dubbing numerous classic English films into Italian), so I assume that it was done by someone else.
The ’70s sensation gets her moment to shine again. Pasqualino is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters, when he is arrested for murder and sent to fight in the army. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
Genuinely shocking in mood and subject matter, Seven Beauties is an extravagant and revelatory film about the many ways in which the petty bourgeoisie can disgrace themselves. Pasqualino is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters, when he is arrested for murder and sent to fight in the army.
Seven Beauties opens with an embrace between Hitler and Mussolini, and from that follows, in the first five minutes of the film, all of World War II. Beginning with bombardment, explosion and plane crash, some newsreel footage moves next to shots of a few snowbound refugees, then to the unburied dead, and finally to abandoned, bombed-out cities.
Seven Beauties In 1975, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman to be nominated for Directing for her film Seven Beauties, which she also wrote. Set in Fascist Italy, the story centers on a small-time crook and fool who makes a living off his seven sisters in Naples (while proclaiming to protect their honor).
