Chichester Cinema at New Park
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- Ieri, Oggi, Domani
3 Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
This delightful comedy anthology again scripted by Eduardo De Filippo, of sexual escapades that helped make Loren and Mastroianni the two most popular Italian performers of 20th Century cinema. Vittorio De Sica's trilogy is the ultimate Sophia Loren film in which she plays a feisty Neapolitan vendor of black-market cigarettes who keeps getting pregnant in order to stay out of jail; the rich wife of a Milanese industrialist having an affair with a struggling writer; and a Roman call-girl who arouses unholy thoughts in a naive young seminarian in the adjacent apartment.
The third episode is undoubtedly the best, with Loren's steamy bedroom striptease as possibly the sexiest thing ever filmed. Mastroianni is excellent, too, in his three contrasting roles as over-taxed husband, out-of-his depth lover, and lusty but frustrated client. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film in 1964 and Marcello Mastroianni who won Best Foreign Actor at the BAFTAs in 1965. (subtitles)
Italy · 1963 · Vittorio De Sica · 119min
