Marriage Italian Style
by Vittorio De Sica
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Actor: Aldo Puglisi, Marcello Mastroianni, Maril? Tolo, Sophia Loren, Tecla ScaranoDirector: Vittorio De Sica
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 1999-03-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Jef Films/Mvd
Studio: Jef Films/Mvd
VHS Movie Reviews of Marriage Italian Style
Movie Review: I could not take my eyes off her
Summary: 4 Stars
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
"Marriage Italian Style" is director Vittorio De Sica's fourth collaboration with the actress Sophia Loren. Loren's sensual beauty, fine comic timing, combined with a brilliant script and the rare chemistry with the co-star Marcello Mastroianni makes the film an excellent combination of a sparkling and amusing farce and a poignant drama of one woman's life and struggles. As Domenico Soriano, a wealthy, arrogant and selfish Neapolitan businessman, Mastroianni is on the verge of marrying a younger woman when he hears that his long time mistress, ex-prostitute Filomena, is on her deathbed. He rushes to her side and agrees to marry Filomena and soon become a widower but when she recovers "miraculously" he recognizes that her illness was only a trick. Then, in her flashbacks, we learn that she did it for the sake of her three children of whom Domenico knew nothing about and one of them (or maybe all) could be his... Mastroianni and Loren had perhaps the best on-screen chemistry ever; it is delight to see them together in this film as well as in "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" and "The Sunflowers" - little known but wonderful Soviet - Italian film, both by Vittorio De Sica. I also liked them together in Altman's "Pr?t-?-Porter" (1994) aka "Ready to Wear". One scene in Marriage Italian Style should be on the list of the best ever filmed - young Filomena walks down a sidewalk in Naples to meet with Dominico and every man, regardless of his age stares at her. I am a woman but I could not take my eyes off her - Cleopatra or Nefertity could've walked like that. My verdict - they don't make comedies like that anymore.
4.5/5
Movie Review: Why isn't this on DVD?
Summary: 4 Stars
It should be. Funny and sad. Sophia Loren always looks beautiful. Good movie. Enjoy!Movie Review: Good film, mediocre tape
Summary: 3 Stars
Others have commented on the film's classic status so I won't repeat those comments here. Instead, I just want to warn potential purchasers of the video quality. The picture lacks resolution and colors are smeared with poor edge integrity (meaning the colors of objects smear into adjacent areas). The colors are also artificially intense. Overall, the copy quality is about on a par with that of real-time dubs using home VHS equipment. Given that we now live in a world of high quality [price]tapes from the major studios, the quality of this tape given its extremely high price is ludicrous. The rating is three stars: 4 for the movie and 2 for the tape copy (I have seen poorer quality tapes but at least the sellers charged a price consistent with the quality of the tapes).Note: For future readers, this review applies to the videotape copy of the film sold by Jef Films during the year 2001 ...
Movie Review: DAS on Marriage Italian Style
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like Sophia's comic side, as well as her very serious side, you will find this an excellent movie!!! I have tried, desperately, over the past few years to get a copy of this movie. I was told that distribution of the movie in the U.S. was discontinued some years back. It is a comfort to know that it is once again available in the U.S...Movie Review: LIFE AND SOPHIA LOREN
Summary: 4 Stars
I consider this film to be the best teaming of SOPHIA and MARCELLO. They are both wonderful in this satire dealing with a prostitute who wants to trick a long time client to a marriage.Seeing SOPHIA LOREN in a spiderweb almost killed me ,since i was a teenager the first time i saw it.They should however take down the price.Weren't we lucky guys to have women like SOPHIA LOREN as models?. Those were the days indeed, now we're stuck with tall actresses so skinny they seem to disappear.
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