Matrimonio all’italiana (Marriage, Italian Style). 1964. Directed by Vittorio De Sica

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Matrimonio all’italiana (Marriage, Italian Style). 1964. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Courtesy of Photofest.

Matrimonio all’italiana (Marriage, Italian Style). 1964. Italy. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Screenplay by Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra, Leo Benvenuti, Piero de Bernardi. With Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilù Tolo. In Italian; English subtitles. 4K digital restoration by Cineteca di Bologna and Technicolor Foundation. 102 min.

Vittorio De Sica, who earlier in his career was a matinee idol specializing in accidental lovers, appeared opposite Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Alessandro Blasetti’s Too Bad She’s Bad before directing them in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Marriage, Italian Style - both box-office gold, the latter a beloved comedy of earthly appetites with Mastroianni as the charmingly despicable society man who is duped into marrying Loren, his whorish secret lover. A satire of class hypocrisy and Catholic repression, Marriage, Italian Style was likened by more than one critic to the Universal comedies of Rock Hudson and Doris Day, a comparison certainly not lost on the industry that reunited this winning couple yet again in films like Sunflower and A Special Day.

This film accompanies MoMA and Cinecittà Present: Marcello and Chiara Mastroianni, A Family Affair.

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