Movies by Margherita Girelli

Crazy Desire

Crazy Desire

A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.

Brennus, Enemy of Rome

Brennus, Enemy of Rome

This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire.

Paris, My Love

Paris, My Love

Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 60's boom and its broken dreams. The dialogue be...