Seven Beauties
Seven Beauties

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During WWII. Italian national Neapolitan Pasqualino Frafuso is a big-talking layabout who has grand ideas of his importance, especially in upholding the honor of his family, consisting of his mother and his less-than-attractive seven sisters. He admits to himself that he too is less than handsome, but believes he nonetheless attracts the romantic interest of most women. In upholding his sisters' honor he often calls himself Pasqualino Settebellezze, translated Pasqualino "Sev... (Full plot summary below)

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During WWII. Italian national Neapolitan Pasqualino Frafuso is a big-talking layabout who has grand ideas of his importance, especially in upholding the honor of his family, consisting of his mother and his less-than-attractive seven sisters. He admits to himself that he too is less than handsome, but believes he nonetheless attracts the romantic interest of most women. In upholding his sisters' honor he often calls himself Pasqualino Settebellezze, translated Pasqualino "Seven Beauties". Having gone AWOL from military service, he has just gotten off a train as a stowaway in an unknown locale when he meets another AWOL soldier, Francesco. They correctly assume that they're somewhere in Germany. Relaying his less-than-direct "point A to point B" story of how he arrived at this point, Pasqualino tells one in which every conscious decision was what he thought would be the path of greatest ease for himself in less-than-ideal circumstances, beginning with accidentally killing his sister Concettina's pimp (and, according to her, her lover and fiancé), declaring insanity in the ensuing legal battles rather than going to prison, and choosing military service rather than continue to endure medical intervention, such as shock treatment, at the psychiatric hospital. Pasqualino and Francesco are quickly captured by the Nazis and sent to a POW camp. Having already witnessed mass murders by the Nazis both inside and outside the camp, Pasqualino makes another "easier path" decision in what ends up being a dangerous campaign of seducing the obese, sadistic female camp commandant.

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 10/10 by Ken HankeThe film is a bleakly funny, beautifully made and deeply disturbing work.
DVDTalk.com - 10/10 by Bill GibronWith final words that are both exhilarating and sad, and [a]...message that maligns wars of all types...Wertmüller has crafted a political protest out of the tenets of tragedy
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertIts virtuoso style, demonstrating once again Miss Wertmuller's mastery of filmmaking, is used to tell us a story that's very opaque, despairing, and bottomless.
The New York Review of Books - 9/10 by Michael WoodAlthough the transitions between times and perspectives and places are exciting and beautifully done, they are really transitions from nowhere to nowhere.
Creative Loafing - 9/10 by Matt BrunsonLina Wertmuller's audacious art-house hit is at once ruthless, sadistic and cynical -- it's also very funny, using its black comedy trappings to unearth laughs where none should exist.
ColeSmithey.com - 6/10 by Cole SmitheyNominated for five Oscars, "Seven Beauties" remains a singular example of women's cinema grappling with the tattered shreds of war to get at otherwise unspoken truths.
User Review - 10/10 by Jack GStarts off as stinging satire, and then gets realy dark and sad and depressing. My kind of move. Giannini is brilliant.
User Review - 10/10 by LuigiLina Wertmuller! Giancarlo Giannini is awesome in this film. When I saw "Life is Beautifull" I sat up and shouted, "Hey, wait a minute!"
User Review - 10/10 by Michael LA sardonic vision of the rise of fascism in Italy and Europe. The film is ruthless - the everyman we are to identify with is a passive accomplice to the brutality that we consciously reject as immoral, yet our identification with Pasqualino - our representative in the film - also attempts to indict us, from his comic manslaughter in defending the honour of his wretched sisters to his "courtship" of a female commandant of a concentration camp, a woman as ugly as sin itself and in his attempt vindicating everything she represents; like an ape he does what is necessary to survive.
User Review - 10/10 by David Lone of the finest tragicomedies to come out of Italy. Lina Wertmuller's amazing, as is Giancarlo Giannini.

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