Marriage Italian Style

(Matrimonio all’italiana)

Vittorio De Sica
Italy, France, 1964
featuring

Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisii, Tecla Scarano,

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni were in many ways like the screwball comedy teams of 1930s Hollywood, irascibly antagonistic and inherently romantic. But Loren and Mastroianni were brilliant in a very particular way: they forced each other to be human or, in Mastroianni’s case, to at least turn his face from the screen when he couldn’t be. That studied Mastroianni gesture is the curious “happy” end of this Vittorio De Sica film that has been miscast as a comedic sequel to Divorce Italian Style but whose title actually rings with a chuckling irony and the perennial tragedy of Italian life.

Judy Bloch
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Renato Castellani
  • Tonino Guerra
  • Leo Benvenuti
  • Piero De Bernandi
Based On
  • the play Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo
Cinematographer
  • Roberto Gerardi
Language
  • Italian
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 102 mins
Source
  • Cinecittà
Permission
  • Surf Film
Additional Info
  • 4K Restoration by Cineteca di Bologna and Technicolor Foundation

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