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Seven Beauties (Italian: Pasqualino Settebellezze, "Pasqualino Sevenbeauties") is a 1975 historical black comedy drama Italian film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler.
Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller OMRI (Italian: [ˈliːna vertˈmyller]; 14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Seduction of Mimi , [ 6 ] Love and Anarchy , and Swept Away .
If you weren’t around at the time, it’s hard to communicate just what a splashy, dominating place the Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller occupied during the 1970s. Wertmüller, who died on ...
Pages in category "Films directed by Lina Wertmüller" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lina Wertmüller, who died in December, became the first woman nominated in the category ever in 1977 for "Seven Beauties." "Lost in Translation" director Sofia Coppola, "Lady Bird" director Greta ...
The previous Oscar-nominated female directors were Seven Beauties' Lina Wertmüller, The Piano's Jane Campion, Lost in Translation's Sofia Coppola, The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow, and Lady Bird ...
The reality, however, is that Wertmuller is exhibiting the courage to show things that other filmmakers shy away from." [6] John P. Lovell wrote "The sexual violence can be analyzed as political violence within the framework of patriarchal politics and the film's concern with a symbolic presentation of social revolt." [7]
A highlight of her film career was her performance as the unnamed Nazi female prison commandant in Lina Wertmüller's Seven Beauties (1975), in which she played a cat-and-mouse game of seduction with the concentration camp inmate played by Giancarlo Giannini. A profile of Stoler was featured on the front page of the New York Times Arts section.