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Writer-Director Bernardo Bertolucci, 30, the prodigy of Italian cinema who made an impressive American debut seven years ago with his Before the Revolution, has added a lot of panache to Moravia's book but lost much of its psychological strength. Marcello (lean-Louis Trintignant), the film's protagonist, is a rigidly "normal" young man who marries and joins the Fascists for the same reason-to conform. His passion for convention is the ill-fitting mask he wears to cover his own moral corruption. While he was a young boy, he was the victim of an attempted seduction...
...combines the assignment with a honeymoon trip for his addled bride (Stefania Sandrelli). The meeting with his instructor and an intense assignation with the professor's wife (Dominique Sanda), reinforce his cynicism but weak en his homicidal resolve. The killing must be carried out by others while Marcello huddles in the back seat of a car, staring blankly at the slaughter...
...burned-out pop singer, Valeria Billi (Sophia Loren) has enough troubles for a group. One more cataclysm cannot matter-so she falls in love with a priest, Don Mario (Marcello Mastroianni). These are the '70s, and married priests are not unheard of. But this is also provincial Padua, and the residue of two millenniums bows the Father's shoulders. Should he yield to his passions or to tradition? In The Priest's Wife he accommodates both, thereby demonstrating that sin beloved by Italian film makers: hypocrisy within the cloth...
...variation on a national obsession: the clericalism that many adherents cannot take in a religion they do not want to leave. In the U.S., the film's taste may be suspect, its humor questionable. Its stars, however, remain the screen's greatest sex comedians. Sophia and Marcello have been through half a dozen films together, and perhaps it is unwise for them to attack what is vulnerable in revered institutions. They are becoming one themselves...
...suicidal female pop singer find happiness in the arms of a Roman Catholic priest? Sophia Loren finds out. So does the padre assigned to straighten out Sophia, Marcello Mastroianni, who eventually discovers that he needs some straightening out himself. It all happens in the new movie The Priest's Wife, which Producer Carlo Ponti decided to make without counting on any plugs from the Vatican's Osservatore Romano...