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Girl With a Suitcase

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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.

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Derek Smith Slant Magazine May 2
Girl with a Suitcase celebrates the power and necessity of human connection. Go to Full Review
Imran Khan PopMatters May 7
Zurlini manages a disciplined balance that turns Girl With a Suitcase into a cohesive work, exploiting styles to deliver a truly emotional and sincere portrait of socio-economic clashes. Go to Full Review
Vernon Young Film Quarterly 01/17/2024
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. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 04/28/2010
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It has Claudia Cardinale at her charming best. Go to Full Review
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12/21/2015 6.4/10 my review: http://wp.me/p1eXom-26y See more 02/07/2014 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 See more 01/19/2011 "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...". See more 09/07/2010 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. See more 03/15/2010 Ah, first love can be so bittersweet..... See more 03/07/2010 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... See more 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
Canadian French
Runtime
2h 15m