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Girl with a Suitcase Aida (Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Day of the Owl) has fallen for a rich playboy and arrives at his door to find it firmly shut and herself ignored. His younger, more sensitive brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin, Cinema Paradiso) helps her and finds himself quickly besotted. Cardinale gives one of her most tender and vulnerable performances in Girl with a Suitcase, an unsentimental coming-of-age story that deals as much with adolescence as class. A vital director of Italy’s post-war cinema, Valerio Zurlini’s small but remarkable body of work deserves to be discussed among the greats. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative by the Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Camelia and Titanus Interview with assistant director Piero Schivazappa (2006, 20 mins) Interview with screenwriter Piero De Bernardi (2006, 17 mins) Interview with film critic Bruno Torri on Zurlini’s career (2006, 17 mins) Visual essay about the film by Kat Ellinger (2024, 14 mins) Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Giuliana Minghelli and an overview of the US critical reception by Cullen Callagher. Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings Add four or more of our April releases (A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness, Girl with a Suitcase, Va savoir, River of Grass, and Killer Cop) to cart to receive 10% off. Discount automatically applied at cart. Ends February 5th. Year: 1961 Country: Italy Cert: 12 Format: Blu-ray Region: ABC RAD103BDLE EAN: 5060974681990 Release date: 28/04/25 Press: "The kind of economical and highly evocative direction that one associates with the best contemporary Italian films” - Monthly Film Bulletin, August 1963
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Girl with a Suitcase (1961)
121 min
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?