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The Grotesque Honor of Survival: Revisiting Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975)

After deserting, he is captured by the Germans and sent to a concentration camp. The Ultimate Sacrifice Pasqualino_Settebellezze_1974_HD_-_Altadefinizi...

If you have ever wondered just how low a person will sink to stay alive, provides a haunting, darkly comedic answer in her 1975 masterpiece, Seven Beauties (originally Pasqualino Settebellezze ). Wertmüller uses this disturbing scenario to strip away

The film’s most famous—and "grotesque"—sequence involves Pasqualino deciding to seduce the camp’s "sadistic" and corpulent female commandant (Shirley Stoler) as his only path to survival. Wertmüller uses this disturbing scenario to strip away Pasqualino’s remaining shreds of dignity, transforming his survival from a "triumph" into a cold, cynical "expression of the life force". Why It Matters: Cinematic History Seven Beauties is a "painful, startling reflection" on

Beyond directing, it earned nominations for Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film . Final Thoughts

For this film, Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director .

Seven Beauties is a "painful, startling reflection" on how easily society accepts cruelty and how the "normal" can do terrible things to survive. It’s a film that demands to be seen, even as it makes you want to look away.