Seven Beauties Review
A small-time hood goes to a Nazi concentration camp, an insane asylum, and the Italian army in this tragic comedy under the critical eye of director Lina_Wertmuller. A frequent Wertmuller leading man, Giancarlo_Giannini plays Pasquale, a macho caricature who struts around Europe demoralizing himself for the sake of his family's honor. With Chaplinesque motions and exaggerated facial gestures, Giannini is wonderful as this despicable character, who embodies the false sense of dignity in male chauvinism as he is supported by his hard-working yet equally despicable seven sisters. As the assistant director for Fellini's 8_1/2, Wertmuller seems to have been influenced by that director, especially in her grotesque characters like the family of prostitutes and the dominatrix Nazi commander. Her style is completely her own, however, as she allows her characters to sink to the lowest depths of humanity for the sake of their own survival. Seven Beauties was nominated for four Academy awards in 1976, including Best Director for Wertmuller, the first woman to be nominated in that category. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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