Cinema
Girl with a Suitcase
La ragazza con la valigia
Valerio Zurlini · 1961
Synopsis
Aida, a young singer without much talent, has left her musician boyfriend for Marcello, a charmer from a good family whom she met at Riccione and who promised to make her known. He abandons her in a garage and disappears. She tracks him down as far as his family's home in Parma, where Marcello sends his younger brother Lorenzo, sixteen, to get rid of her. But the boy takes pity on her and sets about helping her.
Context
The screenplay is by Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and the director. Claudia Cardinale and Jacques Perrin play the two leading roles; both were dubbed in Italian, the former by the actress Adriana Asti. The action takes place in summer, between Parma and the Romagna Riviera, where the film was shot, in Riccione notably. It was restored in 4K from the original negative by the Cineteca di Bologna.
Who it is for
A film of about two hours, restrained and melancholy, about the meeting of a teenage boy and an abandoned young woman.
Prizes and reception
In competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1961; Claudia Cardinale received a special David di Donatello for this role.
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