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MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) fields a pair of champions, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who romp through this hilarious, sentimental, fiercely moral old tearjerker about a Neapolitan pastrymaker who is dragged to the altar by an indomitable tart...
...Pietro Germi's memorable comedy, Divorce-Italian Style. Its inspiration is the same rigid divorce laws that make marriage a last resort for Italian males and a Sisyphean challenge for the women who have to weep, cheat, wheedle and trick them into it. Under Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow), the two stars pour themselves into their work and set charm flowing like strong red wine...
Though Marriage occasionally creaks like a piece of stage machinery, Director De Sica cunningly transforms its back street romance into an earthy, exuberant paean to virtue. Mastroianni's vain, middle-aged gallan-checking the coxcomb at every mirror, sneaking into a little dance of smug self-satisfaction -smacks of the satyr that most men yearn to be when the moon is right. And Sophia has become far too perceptive an actress to squander her talents as a mere prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold. Now wild, now touchingly woebegone, now coolly indomitable, she is Everywoman, Italian style...
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The ubiquitous Mastroianni with Sophia Loren in three delightful modern fables directed by Vittorio De Sica...
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW. The ubiquitous Mastroianni, evenly matched against one of Italy's great natural wonders, Sophia Loren, in three racy modern fables directed by Vittorio De Sica...