The picture quality was clear and perfect would recommend buying any DVD from amazon.thanks for your prompt shipping

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Antoinette

Bought this as a gift for my wife who was born and raised in Italy. She enjoys it immensely but it probably not worth the expense if you are not Italian.

The movie came packaged, it was sent within the time that had been allotted, and it was a decent price. i would definitely order from this seller again.

A wildly chaotic farce by Europe's pioneering female director, Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated "Beauties" begins with a montage of war footage sarcastically narrated by an unseen observer. Then we meet Giannini's macho Italian crook, a not-so-wholesome Everyman who deserts Mussolini's army only to wind up in a nightmarish concentration camp. Wertmuller's acid commentary on Italian politics and society takes us from the whorehouse to the funny farm, the penitentiary to a prisoner-of-war camp, depicting the lengths Pasqualino will go to stay alive--such as becoming the sex slave of an obese, crop-wielding Nazi commander (Shirley Stoler). Memorably perverse, "Beauties" is a surreal, sardonic look at the immorality of war.

Seven Beauties was very popular upon its release in the 1970s, and the new DVD does the movie justice. The DVD has a few scenes deleted during the US release, as well as a bonus DVD which includes an interview with the director. The film itself is very funny, yet at the same time quite disturbing. The full horrors of the totalitarian state, from the execution of innocents in a field to the more organized killings in a concentration camp, are shown quite convincingly. Giancarlo Giannini is the central character. He's a not very bright bully whose half intentional killing of a man who he feels has insulted one of Giannini's prostitute sisters leads him to the concentration camp via stints in a mental hospital and the Italian army. He decides to do anything in order to survive, whether it is providing lists of prisoners to be executed (someone has to pick the names, he reasons) or seducing the camp commadant (Shirley Stoler). He does survive, but is as muddle headed as ever, thinking that only by having 25 or 30 children to protect him will he be able to avoid the horrors that are certainly coming to the post WWII generation.
Some people are offended by the movie's subject matter, or more typically, by the movie's possible moral that one should do anything to survive. I doubt that is the film's point. Paqualino (Giannini) is not bright enough to formulate much of a plan for anything. His hair brained attempts to dispose of the body of the man he accidentally shot are very funny. Ditto his attempts to cop an insanity plee by pretending he thinks he's the Duce. The cinematography is excellent, especially in the court scenes and the concentration camp scenes. Carolina (Francesca Marciano) is beautiful as the girl who always loved Pasualino. The intro (oh yeah) is very funny, with documentary shots of the horrors of war and the tyrants who glorify it (Hitler & Mussolini) along with ironic voice over descriptions of those who are half witting accomplices to tyranny or those who are too busy to notice what is going on ("to those who still support the King, oh yeah...to those who are tired of strikes, oh yeah....to those who are always in Switzerland, oh yeah..."). The juxtaposition of the images and the ironic words is just great. It's best to look at this first few minutes of the film with the dubbed narrator, then switch the DVD back to Italian with English subtitles for the rest of the film. Why only four stars? Well because four stars denotes an excellent film, and five stars a great one, and there havent been more than a few dozen of those made since movies started in the late 1890s.