Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Audience Member The iconic Italian director Vittorio De Sica creates an Italian anthology comedy called Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow starring the beautiful and talented Sophia Loren. The acting performances were fantastic and top-notch from Marcello Mastroianni and especially Sophia Loren as the two put on wonderful chemistry in this anthology comedy. The art direction in this Vittorio De Sica motion picture was absolutely beautiful in this Italian neorealist film. The costume designs were also extremely beautiful. Last but not least, the film was very hilarious from beginning to the end. Overall, Vittorio De Sica's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a hysterical and beautiful film. The film was fantastic when I saw it yesterday, it was fantastic when I saw it today, and it will be fantastic when I watch it tomorrow! Simply because Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is such a great film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member One ofthe sexiest striptease in film history, Also a very practical italian comedy Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member There is such a delightful playfulness to this trio of tales about relationships between men and women in Italy. Sophia Loren is in three different roles - a poor mother in Naples who keeps getting pregnant and having children to postpone being jailed for failing to pay debts on her furniture, a rich woman in Naples who has had a one-night stand while her husband is away at a conference and has picked him up the following day in her Rolls-Royce, and a high-class courtesan who does business out of her apartment overlooking Piazza Navone in Rome, attracting the attention of a young man studying to be a priest. I wouldn't say Loren has exceptional range, but she does turn in a solid performance, and plays feisty, haughty, seductive, angry, and bemused pretty well, all while being quite entertaining. Marcello Mastroianni is her counterpart in each tale (one of the clients in the last, not the young man), and is similarly engaging. It was nice to see him so light on his feet as he moved around in that last tale; his expressions were over-the-top (in a good way), and it was funny to see him ask Loren to dress up as a schoolgirl, and then watch her reaction. The movie feels quintessentially Italian, as the characters are animated and highly expressive. There is also a feeling of genuine humanity and community. There is an honesty here, as each of the stories quite openly acknowledges sexual urges in both men and women as being natural and a positive thing, which is quite refreshing. At the same time, it remains decent and acknowledges a sense of higher morality. In the first tale, Loren's character is tempted but does not sleep with her brother-in-law when her husband can't get her pregnant again, accepts going to jail, and talks to the prisoners there without an ounce of judgment about why they're there. In the second, Mastroianni's character realizes how shallow Loren's is when she's more concerned about damage to her car after they nearly run over a child. In the third, Loren's character realizes that despite an antagonistic relationship with the young man's grandmother (played fantastically by Tina Pica), she has common ground with her, and must persuade the boy to stay on his path. How nice it is that director Vittorio De Sica shows us that these things - lust and morality - can exist side by side, perfectly well. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review ashley h Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is a decent film. It is about the stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. Vittorio De Sica did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the humor and romance. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This film consists of three comedic short stories centering around the lives of three different women. Each one stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. The short stories are delightfully funny while thoughtful too, exploring how the roles and expectations of women have changed over time. Lovely use of visual metaphors. Viewers will appreciate the range exhibited by Loren and Mastroianni. They have remarkable chemistry. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Three different relationship stories with the same actors, with the best one also the first one, which takes up the lion share of its running time Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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