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Seven Beauties
(Pasqualino Settebellezze)

Screening on Film
Directed by Lina Wertmüller .
With Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler.
Italy, 1975, 35mm, color, 115 min.
Italian with English subtitles.

Few directors have polarized audiences quite as strongly as Lina Wertmüller, and this film offers plenty of provocation to support her notorious reputation. Giancarlo Giannini portrays a petty thief who is sent to an insane asylum after murdering and dismembering the pimp who coerced his sister into a life of prostitution. He is then ordered to join the Italian army and is eventually captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp, where he attempts to seduce a sadistic female commander. Wertmüller's satire of Italian machismo was honored with four Academy Award nominations, including the first Best Director nomination given to a woman.

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