Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow(Ieri, oggi, domani)

Three stories, three cities, three women, all with the face of Sophia Loren. In a trio of markedly different performances, she portrays first a blackmarket cigarette seller in Naples, who avoids going to prison by repeatedly getting pregnant, then the carefree wife of an industrialist with terrible driving skills, who roams through the city of Milan with her lover, and finally a Rome prostitute, who inadvertently persuades a young curate to abandon the seminary. A perfect showcase for the magnificent chemistry between Loren and Mastroianni, De Sica’s fanciful triptych combining playful bedroom comedy with neorealist social commentary rightly claimed the Oscar.

Restored by The Film Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna in association with Surf Film at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film

12/1 (Sun): Film talk with Sam Ho