However, this is really Sophia Loren's film and she is placed center-stage as a street smart young woman...

The film opens with shots of modernist buildings in New York as a woman (Ursula Andress in a brown wig) is being pursued...

I stumbled on this film by chance and was instantly hooked by the preview featuring two men in an open-topped sports car..

As promised in Part #1 of a review of "Boccaccio 70", and since I felt each film in the portmanteau deserved a separate review..

With a running time of over 3 hours, I would normally have given "Boccaccio 70" a wide berth..

I've reviewed Pietro Germi's "Divorce Italian Style" in an earlier post and it makes sense to check out "Marriage Italian Style"..

Anyone stumbling on my lockdown cinema blog will be immediately aware of the film posters that feature prominently...

Giuseppe Tornatore's much lauded and garlanded film about a love affair with cinema, "Cinema Paradiso"..

"La Visita" stars Sandra Milo as "Pina" - by this point a regular in Pietrangelo's films - with the French actor François Périer as "Adolfo"

I came across his 1955 "Commedia All'Italiana" film starring Alberto Sordi, an actor most associated with the genre...

There's nothing particularly thematic to connect these two films that I watched recently, one on BFI Player and the other via Amazon Prime..

It's probably fair to say that I've become a little addicted to "Commedia Al'Italiana" as I discover the vast output of the genre..

This time Sandrelli is cast as "Roberta", a young go-getter from a wealthy family with interests in agriculture and real estate...

Tucked away in amongst a series of shorts on the theme of films made in a single location...

That said, I watched "Il Bidone" - a film that could best be described as the least "Fellini-esque" of his work...

Outside of Italy, Sophia Loren tends to be more well-known for a number of blousy, big-budget Hollywood films..

I was expecting a comic romp along the lines of "Seduced and Abandoned"..

I'd been meaning to avoid watching "Seduced and Abandoned", directed by Piero Germi...

...and details the investigation of a murder of a wealthy woman, by her friend the police inspector Ciccio Ingravalo..

Super-smooth Italian heartthrob Marcello Mastroianni plays "Ferdinando Cefalù", the son of an impoverished Sicilian nobleman..