Girl With A Suitcase (Blu-ray)

A girl falls for a rich playboy but is ignored. His younger brother helps her and finds himself quickly besotted.

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.

Bonus Materials

• 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
• Interview with screenwriter Piero De Bernard
• Interview with film critic Bruno Torri on Zurlini’s career
• Visual essay about the film by Kat Ellinger
• Trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Giuliana Minghelli