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È piccerella

Name: È piccerella
Director: Elvira Notari
Released: 1922
Duration: 62 min

Representation Score

1.3/10

Minimal

1922

Director

Elvira Notari

Runtime

62 minutes

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Elvira Notari’s work employs a 'verismo' style to ground the drama in the gritty realities of the working class. This approach provides a more authentic social texture compared to the idealized high-society films of the 1920s. However, the film adheres to traditional gender roles and straight-centered structures. Female characters primarily serve as catalysts for male action or as archetypal maternal figures. Ultimately, the film's strength lies in its refusal to sanitize moral instruction, opting instead to depict systemic dysfunction and tragic obsession.

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Category Breakdown

Does È piccerella have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The film focuses on a heterosexual relationship triangle. There are no indications of queer subtext or non-cisgender identities in the narrative.

How does È piccerella portray gender?

Limited

Margaretella plays a central role as an object of desire, but she has limited control over her own fate, confined to romantic preferences. Male characters dominate the physical conflict through theft and violence.

How racially and ethnically diverse is È piccerella?

Fair

The film highlights the socio-economic conditions of the Italian working class. It avoids the upper-class homogeneity typical of early silent cinema.

How does È piccerella represent religion and culture?

Limited

The story examines the collapse of social order and the failure of traditional domestic stability. It deconstructs the ideal family unit through tragedy.

Does È piccerella include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no documented evidence regarding the portrayal of physical or neurodivergent disabilities in this work.

Present on Screen

The verismo style offers a naturalistic depiction of the lower classes.
It challenges the sanitized, high-society norms of early 20th-century cinema.
The narrative explores complex themes of subjective morality and social breakdown.

Limited or Absent

The film relies on traditional, limited gender archetypes.
The romantic conflict follows a strictly straight-centered structure.
women's ability to drive the story is largely restricted to being objects of desire or maternal figures.

Official Synopsis

In order to conquer Margaretella with expensive presents, a young man called Tore steals his mother's jewels but Margaretella seems to prefer Carluccio who challenges Tore to a duel and wounds him. Forgiven by his mother just before she dies, Tore takes revenge by killing Margaretella, but even in prison he can't stop thinking to his victim.

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