103 Girl with a Suitcase

[Finch]

Released in the UK and US/Canada: April 28/29th

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)

Interview with screenwriter Piero De Bernardi (2006)

Interview with film critic Bruno Torri on Zurlini’s career (2006)

Visual essay about the film by Kat Ellinger (2024)

Trailer

Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista

Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Giuliana Minghelli

Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

[ellipsis7]

Wonderful. At a public interview I heard Cardinale say this was easily her personal favourite amongst her entire filmography...

The 3 extras from 2006 I believe are the same as on the previous NoShame DVD release... Looking forward to Kat Ellinger's new Visual Essay...

[TMDaines]

One of my all-time favourites.

Mai, mai, mai più...

[domino harvey]

Great film, I think everyone here will enjoy it

[andyli]

Very happy to accept the Cardinale clue being this. Looking forward to watching it for the first time.

[domino harvey]

Hope this sells well so we get more Cardinale from this period like La ragazza di Bube and Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...

[What A Disgrace]

I hope this is just the start of Valerio Zurlini releases. I've only seen the three released by NoShame on DVD, which includes this one (my favorite of the three), and I've wanted to see the others for years but he was curiously ignored by every label with any interest in Italian cinema, despite each film of his being headlined by one or more major figures (except perhaps his first), and most of them generally well considered.

[domino harvey]

Kino/Raro put out Le soldatesse on Blu a couple years ago as well

[rapta]

Hope this sells well so we get more Cardinale from this period like La ragazza di Bube and Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...

Had previously assumed Bebo's Girl would be the Cardinale film they were teasing since it was Comencini. Perhaps they'll get to it later on, as it has been restored by Cinecittà/Cristaldi.

I believe Visconti's Sandra was restored in 4K by Sony, but still nothing from Criterion's end (they're the label I assume will release it one day).

I hope this is just the start of Valerio Zurlini releases. I've only seen the three released by NoShame on DVD, which includes this one (my favorite of the three), and I've wanted to see the others for years but he was curiously ignored by every label with any interest in Italian cinema, despite each film of his being headlined by one or more major figures (except perhaps his first), and most of them generally well considered.

I'm very surprised The Desert of the Tartars hasn't shown up through any of the usual English-speaking boutiques either side of the Atlantic. Radiance may be more interested in Indian Summer and/or Violent Summer if they were to do another though, seeing as they're into their Delon and Trintignant (and did mention they had more titles from the latter lined up at some point).

[sabbath]

New Radiance trailer

[Stefan Andersson]

There is apparently a French track for this film, with Cardinale dubbing herself in French (she spoke French fluently acccording to this: https://blueprintreview.co.uk/2025/04/g ... -radiance/):
was this track not available to Radiance?

The old French dvd, from M6 Vidéo, has a French track according to some sources:
https://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f70772-fille- ... tocomplete - French and Italian audio
https://store.potemkine.fr/dvd/34750010 ... o-zurlini/ - French and Italian audio
https://www.amazon.fr/Fille-%C3%A0-vali ... B00OZNQLJM - French and Italian audio
https://www.fnac.com/a7899464/La-Fille- ... DVD-Zone-2 - no French audio


An Italian trailer for the restored version, with a fan-made French soundtrack taken from an Arte broadcast; Cardinale seems to speak French in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5V7TkjO6Nc

[ellipsis7]

Born in Tunisia to Italian parents, indeed French was essentially [url=
https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2017/05/14/claudia-cardinale-je-n-ai-eu-dans-ma-vie-qu-un-seul-homme_5127423_3476.html]her first language[/url]...

Parliez-vous italien lorsque vous avez débarqué à Rome ?

Pas un mot ! Ma langue maternelle est le français et je ne comprenais rien, effrayée, en arrivant sur le tournage du Pigeon, de Monicelli, de voir tout le monde gesticuler en gueulant très fort. J’avais l’impression que tout le monde se disputait. Mais non, m’a-t-on expliqué : les Italiens parlent aussi avec leurs mains. A l’école d’acteurs de Cinecitta, quand il a fallu monter sur scène et me présenter, j’en ai été incapable. Tout le monde m’observait en disant : celle-là doit être arabe. Furieuse, je suis partie en claquant la porte. Eh bien ils m’ont gardée, élue « pour le tempérament » ! Et peu à peu j’ai appris l’italien. Mais j’ai été doublée dans tous mes premiers films. Pour Le Guépard, je parle français avec Alain Delon et anglais avec Burt Lancaster.