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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
IERI, OGGI, DOMANI
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original trilogy of risqué romantic comedies set in different parts of Italy, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni starring in each story. The two play lovers in the three vignettes, reuniting on the screen after seven years.
In Naples, poor but resourceful Adelina supports her husband by selling black market cigarettes. In Milan, wealthy Anna debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband and is having an affair with poor Renzo, whose infatuation is tested by a near-tragedy. In Rome, prostitute Mara resists the advances of her neighbour’s grandson, a priest who has fallen in love with her. This episode features the iconic scene: a provocative striptease by Loren for her client (played by Mastroianni).
Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica (Bicycle Thieves, Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious.
CastSophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrèi
LanguageItalian with English subtitles
Winner
Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 1965
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Best Foreign Actor, BAFTA Awards 1965
Winner
Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Production, David di Donatello Awards 1964
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DE SICA MAY SEDUCE US WITH HIS BREEZY COMEDY BUT [ALSO] HIS USUAL PREOCCUPATION WITH CLASS, MAKING THE LAUGHS DELIGHTFULLY BRITTLE.
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DIRECTOR: VITTORIO DE SICA
Vittorio was a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Starting out as an actor, by the late 1920s he was successful in the Italian theatre and light comedy movies. Turning to directing in 1940, four of his films won Academy Awards: Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948) which won special Oscars before the foreign film category was established, plus Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) and The Garden of the Finzi Continis (1970) which won Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.