Aida (Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West) has fallen for a wealthy 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. Screened in competition at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, this release includes archival interviews with AD Piero Schivazappa, screenwriter Piero De Bernardi, and critic Bruno Torri; an original visual essay on the film by Kat Ellinger; and a booklet featuring new writing by Giuliana Minghelli and an overview of the critical reception by Cullen Gallagher.
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Girl with a Suitcase arrives from Radiance Films on Blu-ray on April 29, 2025.
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