Girl with a Suitcase

Starring:Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo, Renato Baldini, Riccardo Garrone, Elsa Albani, Corrado Pani, Gian Maria VolontÃ¨, Romolo Valli, Enzo Garinei, Ciccio Barbi, Nadia Bianchi, Angela Portaluri, Edda Soligo
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Studio: Ivy Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
The delectable Claudia Cardinale's first starring role is superlative, knowing and naÃ¯ve, sexy and innocent..

As the GIRL WITH A SUITCASE, Cardinale is Aida, a poor but upstanding young woman, valiantly struggling to protect her virtue while being betrayed by her trusting nature. Rejected by her lover, Marcello, a wealthy cad about town, she ends up with his sixteen year old brother, Lorenzo, who makes a gallant effort to save her from a sinister collection of rogues. In her peasant blouse and billowing skirt, Cardinale is a shot of caffeine to Perrin's sexual awakening, and his noble actions provide a thin ray of hope against an otherwise dark future. Aida and Lorenzo eventually find solace in each others arms, but their idyll is shattered when her shady past catches up with her.

Product Description

Aida (Claudia Cardinale) is a beautiful but naive nightclub singer whose experiences with men yield nothing but heartbreak until she meets her true love, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin). Unfortunately, Lorenzo is the 16-year-old brother of her callow ex-boyfriend Marcello (Corrado Pani), whose wealthy family will stop at nothing to quell the cross-class, May-December romance. Bathed in the textures of 1960s Italy, Valerio Zurlini's classic tale of forbidden love showcases Tino Santoni's lush black & white cinematography and the timeless beauty of leading lady Cardinale.

System Requirements:

Running Time: 109 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Poor Quality Good movie.......2005-11-21

I love the movie but other agree the quality is quiet bad,in parts pices of the film are cut off at the edges the film is also bubbled into english wich is a shame sinse you dont really get the feeling of the actors as you would if it was in italian, The movie is quiet good girl(Aida) is left by her boyfriend and goes in search of him only to fall in love with his younger brother(lorenzo), this relationship is not accepted by his guardian and his teacher a local priest, her former boyfriend vertually disapears in the film and deals with Aida and Lorenzo relationship. One of the beast seens is when Lorenzo goes and looks for Aida at her hotel to find her in a party, good movie BAD quality

Good Movie -- Terrible DVD Transfer.......2004-10-04

"Girl With a Suitcase" is a relatively obscure Italian film from 1960. Claudia Cardinale stars as Aida, a small-time club singer with somewhat questionable morals. She is first seen traveling to Parma with her flashy current boyfriend. When the boyfriend abandons her at a garage, she tries to track him down in Parma. Instead, she finds his 16-yead-old brother, Lorenzo (Jaques Perrin). She starts an unusual relationship with him, and her motives remain unclear, which is the source of the drama. The film is generally interesting and well-acted - worthy of 4 stars; it even received a nomination for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.

Unfortunately, as has been noted by a previous reviewer, the DVD transfer is abysmal. The print quality is particularly bad - early scenes are almost completely bleached out and later scenes are extremely dark, as though everyone is in shadows. In addition, only a full-screen version is available, which results in several important conversations whereby only one person is visible on-screen. Finally, the original Italian version with subtitles is not offered - this DVD is dubbed into English. The sound and dubbing are decent, but the actors all end up sounding rather flat and non-descript. It's really sad when a worthwhile movie is so poorly transferred. The DVD also has no extras.

VERY POOR QUALITY DVD!!!.......2004-09-05

I loved this 60's italian film, but... in my opinion, in this DVD the image's quality is very very poor. Really is shameful. My rate is not 1, is: 0.

Average customer rating:

a better version available elsewhere
The Incredible Claudia Cardinale

Girl with a Suitcase
Starring: Claudia Cardinale , Jacques Perrin , Luciana Angiolillo , Renato Baldini , and Riccardo Garrone
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Manufacturer: Ivy Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0001B50EY
Release Date: 2004-01-07

Description

The delectable Claudia Cardinale's first starring role is superlative, knowing and naïve, sexy and innocent..

Customer Reviews:

a better version available elsewhere.......2007-02-16

This film is available on dvd from more than one company. This "Saturday Matinee" edition is missing approximately fifteen minutes, its visually quality is poorer, and the subtitles are less well done. The "No Shame" edition comes as a box set of two Valerio Zurlini films (the other is "Violent Summer," 1959)and contains several important scenes lacking in the "Saturday Matinee" edition.

The Incredible Claudia Cardinale.......2005-06-12

You loved her as the truly exotic love interest in "The Pink Panther" (released in 1964), but here you get a chance to see her at her Roman best in this 1960 Italian film (directed by Valerio Zurlini) as she plays a beautiful young woman who, suitcase in hand, follows her ex-lover to Parma. Dressed in billowing skirts and the kind of peasant blouse apparently only found in Italian stores, she follows her ex-lover only to fall in love with his adolescent brother. This is a well-designed and planned DVD of high quality and my only problem is with two other reviews that claim to have seen this particular release (Ivy Video) but note its poor quality; I suspect they have their distributors mixed becase unlike other releases of less qualtity, this DVD is not dubbed but subtitled, something that when watching Miss Cardinale perform is very, very necessary. Although a great beauty with eventual roles in French, Italian, British, and American films, she never reached the heights of popularity associated with Gina Lollobrigida or Sophia Loren. Too bad! Of the three, in my opinion, she's the sexiest and the most fun of the lot.

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Starring: Italian Girls of Yore
Manufacturer: Ivy Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001B50F8
Release Date: 2004-01-07

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