5th Avenue Cinema Presents: Seven Beauties

Dir. Lina Wertmüller (1975); Italy; Italian; 116 min; DCP

Despite being the first woman to receive a nomination for Best Director at the Academy Awards, Lina Wertmüller’s films have been curiously underrepresented in contemporary cinemas. One could suspect that this has to do with her work often being impossible to compartmentalize neatly into one box. Getting her start as Fellini’s assistant director in 8 ½, she later gained her own notorious reputation for her skewering of Italian politics, sex and male machismo. Seven Beauties is unlike any other film set in WWII, in turns hilarious and heinous, tasteless and profound, and quintessentially Wertmüller.

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