Movie Review - Girl with a Suitcase
La Ragazza con la valigia (1961)
directed by Valerio Zurlini
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Nothing the kid learns here is anything he wouldn't have learned in time on his own, but because it's Claudia Cardinale who lets him down - and Claudia Cardinale who effortlessly carries so much of our sympathy - the disappointment is heartbreaking when, after awhile, it won't be. Big and lit like a dream, it's just the kind of Italian melodrama that feels as much a part of an unreclaimable movie past as the Western, and as such, invaluable.
directed by Valerio Zurlini
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
Nothing the kid learns here is anything he wouldn't have learned in time on his own, but because it's Claudia Cardinale who lets him down - and Claudia Cardinale who effortlessly carries so much of our sympathy - the disappointment is heartbreaking when, after awhile, it won't be. Big and lit like a dream, it's just the kind of Italian melodrama that feels as much a part of an unreclaimable movie past as the Western, and as such, invaluable.
posted by NPK at 9:29 AM
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