Fabulous Collection!
This four-disc set from Kino Lorber should really be called THE SOPHIA LOREN/MARCELLO MASTROIANNI/VITTORIO DE SICA Award Collection, because the three films in the package feature the work of all three talents.
You might say that Loren and Mastroianni were to the Italian cinema what Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were to American films, and director De Sica was their George Cukor. When these artists worked together, "movie magic" happened.
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW (1963) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This bright comedy is, in fact, a trilogy, in which Loren and Mastroianni play three different roles.
In the first story, they're a poor couple, who make their living by selling black market cigarettes on the streets of Naples. Sophia is also due to go to prison on a minor fraud charge, but under Italian law, that can't happen if she's pregnant or nursing, so she and Marcello decide to keep her in that...
Sophia at her best!
Sophia Loren's movie career has spanned seven decades, beginning with "Il Voto" (1950), where she was billed as Sophia Scicolone. She made a number of Italian films under that name as well as Sophia Lazzaro before adopting the name Sophia Loren. Her best-remembered performances display an earthiness and independence that appear to be extensions of her own personality. As time went on, she developed a more glamorous, film goddess persona. She will turn 77 in September, and still is the ultimate movie star.
The four-disc DVD set, "The Sophia Loren Award Collection," contains three features, directed by Vittorio De Sica, that showcase the actress at her best. "Sunflower" (1970) stars Loren as Giovanna, a strong-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the World War II battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and...
Outstanding Loren-Mastroianni film collection
These are three wonderful Italian language films (all with white English subtitles, not the annoying yellow) co-starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni at the height of their careers. Two are the side-splitting comedies "Marriage Italian Style" and "Yesterday Today & Tomorrow", one the drama "Sunflower", plus you get a bonus DVD with extensive famous celebrity and family interviews of this collection's director Vittorio DeSica. While all the films are highly entertaining, my all-time favorite Loren-Mastroianni film is "Marriage Italian Style," where they play a passionate couple in a long-standing relationship, with its emotional highs and lows over many years, and filmed with great humanity by DeSica. I recently purchased "Marriage" which is sold individually by manufacturer New Star Video and wish to alert buyers that though the latter claims to be in Italian with subtitles, in fact it is entirely English dubbed (voiceover in English, but not the original actors voices),...
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