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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0741952306290
Format: Color, Content/Copy-Protected CD, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Koch Lorber Films
Manufacturer: Koch Lorber Films
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Koch Lorber Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 04, 2006
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 17370
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Theatrical Release Date: January 21, 1976
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Product Description:
Digitally restored and re-mastered this Academy Award-nominated film by Lina Wertm ller tells the story of a petty thief (Giancarlo Giannini) who lives off the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost. System Requirements:Running Time 116 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â FOREIGN/LATIN Rating:Â R UPC:Â 741952306290 Manufacturer No:Â KLFDV3062
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Lina Wertmüller's harrowing 1976 film stars Giancarlo Giannini as a petty crook with seven unattractive sisters to support, and it features a picaresque, World War II-era journey through a prison asylum, army service, and a Nazi concentration camp. Wertmüller is more indulgent in highbrow sadomasochism than she is real profundity, but there's no denying that the film is powerful in its story of subjugation and survival. A climactic scene in which Giannini saves his skin at the camp by seducing its disgusting female commandant is unnervingly honest. Giannini became a '70s international icon partially on the basis of this work. The DVD release has optional English and Italian soundtracks, production notes, and filmographies of the talent. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Not for everyone
Bought this as a gift for my wife who was born and raised in Italy. She enjoys it immensely but it probably not worth the expense if you are not Italian.
Rating: - Just what I asked for!
The movie came packaged, it was sent within the time that had been allotted, and it was a decent price. i would definitely order from this seller again.
Rating: - Seven Beauties
A wildly chaotic farce by Europe's pioneering female director, Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated "Beauties" begins with a montage of war footage sarcastically narrated by an unseen observer. Then we meet Giannini's macho Italian crook, a not-so-wholesome Everyman who deserts Mussolini's army only to wind up in a nightmarish concentration camp. Wertmuller's acid commentary on Italian politics and society takes us from the whorehouse to the funny farm, the penitentiary to a prisoner-of-war camp, depicting the lengths Pasqualino will go to stay alive--such as becoming the sex slave of an obese, crop-wielding Nazi commander (Shirley Stoler). Memorably perverse, "Beauties" is a surreal, sardonic look at the immorality of war.
Rating:  - Well Worth Adding To Your Collection
Seven Beauties was very popular upon its release in the 1970s, and the new DVD does the movie justice. The DVD has a few scenes deleted during the US release, as well as a bonus DVD which includes an interview with the director. The film itself is very funny, yet at the same time quite disturbing. The full horrors of the totalitarian state, from the execution of innocents in a field to the more organized killings in a concentration camp, are shown quite convincingly. Giancarlo Giannini is the central character. He's a not very bright bully whose half intentional killing of a man who he feels has insulted one of Giannini's prostitute sisters leads him to the concentration camp via stints in a mental hospital and the Italian army. He decides to do anything in order to survive, whether it is providing lists of prisoners to be executed (someone has to pick the names, he reasons) or seducing the camp commadant (Shirley Stoler). He does survive, but is as muddle headed as ever, thinking that only by having 25 or 30 children to protect him will he be able to avoid the horrors that are certainly coming to the post WWII generation.
Some people are offended by the movie's subject matter, or more typically, by the movie's possible moral that one should do anything to survive. I doubt that is the film's point. Paqualino (Giannini) is not bright enough to formulate much of a plan for anything. His hair brained attempts to dispose of the body of the man he accidentally shot are very funny. Ditto his ... Read More
Rating:  - Not bad, not bad at all.
Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmuller, 1975)
To say that Seven Beauties is not the type of film I was expecting, given Lina Wertmuller's reputation, would be an understatement. The upside of it is that, as far as concentration camp black comedies go, Seven Beauties stands pretty much head and shoulders above the field; it's certainly miles better than Life Is Beautiful.
Pasqualino Frafuso (Giancarlo Giannini, who will, tragically, probably be best remembered by American audiences for Darkness) is known as Pasqualino Seven Beauties, because he lives with his otherwise all-female family (the term is sarcastic). As we open, Pasqualino and his friend Francesco (the late Piero di Iorio) have just deserted the Italian army during World War II; to pass the time as they trudge along, Pasqualino tells the story of his earlier life and how he got sent to the army. This takes up roughly the first half of the film, and veers between a kind of deeply black slapstick comedy and utter horror (on the part of the viewer, anyway). The latter half occurs after the two of them have been caught and sent to a German concentration camp, and here the real story begins; Pasqualino, whose entire existence is predicated on the idea that he will do anything to survive and support his family, hatches a rather insane plan to seduce the camp's commandant (well-known character actress Shirley Stoller, fresh off a role in Klute). The question at the heart of the movie: how far will Pasqualino go to survive? ... Read More
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