Has Sophia Loren ever been in a movie that wasn't to die for? Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award-nominated "Matrimonio all'italiana" ("Marriage Italian Style" in English) stars her and Marcello Mastroianni as a country girl and a businessman in a romance in post-war Naples.
This is quite a different focus on post-war Italy from De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves". That one looked at the poverty that pervaded the country at the time. Here he just lets Loren and Mastroianni be as zany as they want, while also managing to address important topics. It strikes me as the sort of movie that they had a lot of fun making (not least because of the sexy shots of Sophia Loren). Basically, it reminds us why De Sica was one of the greatest directors of all time, and why Loren and Mastroianni were some of the greatest actors of all time. If you consider yourself a film buff, then you owe it to yourself to watch this movie.
This is quite a different focus on post-war Italy from De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves". That one looked at the poverty that pervaded the country at the time. Here he just lets Loren and Mastroianni be as zany as they want, while also managing to address important topics. It strikes me as the sort of movie that they had a lot of fun making (not least because of the sexy shots of Sophia Loren). Basically, it reminds us why De Sica was one of the greatest directors of all time, and why Loren and Mastroianni were some of the greatest actors of all time. If you consider yourself a film buff, then you owe it to yourself to watch this movie.