Marriage Italian Style

MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE presents director Vittorio De Sica´s fourth collaboration with actress Sophia Loren, and the film exploits the busty woman for all she´s worth.

In the role of Filomena Marturano, a lusty prostitute, Loren´s costumes range from tiny to scanty. Loren´s fine comic timing, combined with a fine script and the bubbling charm of co-star Marcello Mastroianni elevates the picture from mere titillation to consistently deft and amusing farce. As Domenico Soriano, Mastroianni is on the verge of marrying a younger woman when he hears that his long time mistress, Filomena, is on her deathbed. He rushes to her side, where in a series of flashbacks, the film details the couple´s twenty year relationship. Domenico offers to marry Filomena, but when she recovers miraculously he recognizes that her illness was only a ruse--forcing Filomena to pull deeper from her bag of tricks to catch her man.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 22 Maj, 2007