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      Girl With a Suitcase

      1961 2h 15m Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 84% 250+ Ratings Audience Score When aspiring singer Aida (Claudia Cardinale) meets smooth-talking playboy Marcello (Corrado Pani), she believes his big line about advancing her career. When he dumps her weeks later, she's shell-shocked, and turns up on his front door for want of anywhere else to go. There she meets Marcello's teenage brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin), who falls in love with her on the spot. He steals money in order to set her up in a nice hotel and begins courting her in earnest. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member 6.4/10 my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-26y Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member The usual kind of wandering, Italian 1960s film that isn't really about anything but looks good and is nevertheless rather watchable. The sparse music was very welcome and the fight scene was unusually shot. I quite liked the slightly uncertain ending too. 7.25/10 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member "La ragazza con la valigia" is a good melodrama where many of the typical ingredients of the genre are mixed up to create a fascinating movie. It could be an impossible love story between the poor girl and the rich man, but the man is a teen-ager and the girl, in spite of her beautiful babyface, has the charming complexity of a real woman. It would be better to see it as the fantasy of a teenager and its repression. Maybe even as the fantasy of a young woman who finds her pure loving but too young prince charming. The power of feelings of the age when a boy is no more a boy and not yet a man is mixed with the power of the sexuality of a Claudia Cardinale at her best, constantly followed by the camera of Zurlini. The result is a love story that was shot with delicacy, no shout, whispered with the light touch of a hand, an intense stare, a passionate gesture, a lot of vitality and a big "if...". Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Girl With a Suitcase does the older-female-preys-on-younger-male plot straight-faced almost to the point of being dull (like The Graduate minus the sharp humor). What saves the film is a fresh-faced Claudia Cardinale and some grade-A camerawork to capture her photogenic beauty. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Ah, first love can be so bittersweet..... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Adoro adoro adoro! Stavo riguardando degli spezzoni e già il cuore... la scena sulla spiaggia prima del finale, la splendida Cardinale(doppiata da Adriana Asti) che scende dalle scale della Villa di Perrin sulle note dell'Aida, stralci di Parma e Rimini nei primi anni'60, le canzoni di Celentano, Fidenco, Paoli... strazio poetico, amore, senza fiato e occhi lucidi, irraggiungibile. Grazie Valerio per aver lasciato questo capolavoro... Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Vernon Young Film Quarterly Zurlini’s direction is at its best when by keeping his camera high in the intimate scenes he catches the little mobilities of social mannerism and reveals the personal hesitant explorations of the pair. Jan 17, 2024 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It has Claudia Cardinale at her charming best. Rated: A- Apr 28, 2010 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis When aspiring singer Aida (Claudia Cardinale) meets smooth-talking playboy Marcello (Corrado Pani), she believes his big line about advancing her career. When he dumps her weeks later, she's shell-shocked, and turns up on his front door for want of anywhere else to go. There she meets Marcello's teenage brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin), who falls in love with her on the spot. He steals money in order to set her up in a nice hotel and begins courting her in earnest.
      Director
      Valerio Zurlini
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Runtime
      2h 15m