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Screening List：

MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE (4K)

IL BELL'ANTONIO (4K)

BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET

DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE (4K)（1964）

Directed by: Vittorio De Sica

Written by: Ennio De Concini / Alfredo Giannetti / Pietro Germi

Starring: Vittorio De Sica / Silvana Pampanini / Alberto Sordi / Renato Rascel / Valentina Cortese

Plot: 

The wealthy Domenico first meets prostitute Filumena in a Neapolitan brothel during the Second World War. After the war, he takes her home, happy to keep her as a mistress but nothing more. Now, 22 years later, Domenico finds a younger woman and decides to get married. The problem comes when Filumena grows tired of being kept to the side, being merely the caregiver of Domenico’s elder mother. Not seeing a future for herself and her three children, whose existence she has been hiding from Domenico, Filumena hatches a plan to become a bigger part of his life. One day, she pretends to be dying to convince Domenico to marry her. Once married, Filumena reveals that one of the three children is Domenico’s son, but refuses to tell him which one it is. Furious at first, Domenico tries in vain to figure out which is his son. Yet gradually, his attitude changes…

IL BELL'ANTONIO (4K)（1960）

Directed by: Mauro Bolognini

Written by: Pier Paolo Pasolini / Gino Visentini

Starring: Marcello Mastroianni / Claudia Cardinale / Pierre Brasseur / Rina Morelli

Plot: 

The story takes place in the town of Catania, Italy. Antonio is a handsome, irresistible ladies’ man. He fulfills all too well the dual expectations of his native Sicily - pursuing his sexual prowess with women of the people and protecting the virginity of the high - born, which includes his own adored wife. However, behind his carefully cultivated playboy image, a secret shame is concealed: he is, in fact, impotent. In a town like Catania, everything is everyone's business, and family, sex, the Church, and Sicilian insider/outsider politics are as inextricably entwined as strands of spaghetti on a plate. So when the handsome Antonio's domestic impotence becomes known, not only he becomes the laughing stock of the town, an entire family falls. Everyone around him, including his parents, in-laws, priest, and new wife, get into an existential panic. IL BELL’ANTONIO is based on the novel of the same name by Vitaliano Brancati.

BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET（1958）

Directed by: Mario Monicelli

Written by: Age / Scarpelli / Suso Cecchi D'amico / Mario Monicelli

Starring: Vittorio Gassman / Renato Salvatori / Marcello Mastroianni / Memmo Carotenuto

Plot: 

The film details the plight of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist of a pawnshop. Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist plan that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. Before they get into the vacant apartment, a number of misfortunes are incurred by the group. Notwithstanding those bumbling entries, they gain entry into the apartment. However, after boring two holes, they finally break into the kitchen of a wrong room. After realizing their plan was miscalculated, they congregate in the demolished kitchen for a sad late-night meal, but their misfortunes do not end…

DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE（1961）

Directed by: Pietro Germi

Written by: Ennio De Concini / Alfredo Giannetti / Pietro Germi

Starring: Marcello Mastroianni / Daniella Rocca / Stefania Sandrelli / Leopoldo Trieste

Plot: 

Baron Ferdinando Cefalù - known as Fefè - has been married for 15 years now and has grown tired of his wife Rosalia. He desires his 16-year-old cousin Angela, and after finding out that Angela reciprocates his feelings, he starts looking for some way out of his marriage – divorce is illegal in Italy at that time. Inspired by a newspaper report, Fefè persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair. If he catches the couple in flagrante delicto, he can murder Rosalia in a justifiable effort to save his honor and marry Angela after serving the expected 12-month prison sentence. However, not only Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected, the painter also turns out to be inappropriate for this plan, as he is married with three children and is a philanderer who could be easily distracted by any other passing skirt. Does Fefè manage to carry out his plan smoothly? If he does, is he going to spend a wonderful life with Angela afterwards?

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW（1963）

Directed by: Vittorio De Sica

Written by: Eduardo De Filippo / Isabella Quarantotti / Billa Billa Zanuso / Cesare Zavattini

Starring: Sophia Loren / Marcello Mastroianni / Aldo Giuffrè / Agostino Salvietti

Plot: 

The film unfolds a trio of stories about three very different women using their sexuality as a means of getting what they want. In the first story, Adelina sells black-market cigarettes on the streets of Naples to support her unemployed husband Carmine. As her earning fails to cover their expense, she decides to stay pregnant to avoid being prosecuted for non-payment. In the second story, Anna is the wife of a mega-rich industrialist who has a lover named Renzo. Whilst driving together in her husband's Rolls-Royce with her writer lover, Anna must determine who is the most important one to her happiness. In the third story, Mara, a high-priced prostitute, turns the head of a naive young man who is trained to become a priest, prompting a run-in with his self-righteous grandmother and a vow of abstinence. The situation becomes even more complicated when one of her regular clients enters the picture.