Two Women/ Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964) Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church. This cruel event is too much for the always powerful fighting Cesira and she suffers from a breakdown. During their stay in the village, a young intellectual, Michele falls in love with Cesira who does not know how to reply to the advances of such a gentleman. YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW: Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in the three tales that make up this Vittorio De Sica feature from 1964. In the first, the couple produce an endless stream of babies due to a quirk in Italian law about women not being incarcerated during pregnancy. In the second, Loren and Mastroianni play a couple whose relationship is riddled with ceaseless arguing. And in the final installment Loren plays a stripper who may have altered a young man's dreams of becoming a priest. TWO WOMEN: In this 1960 feature, also directed by De Sica, Loren plays a woman who tries to raise her daughter while coping with the ravages of World War II. |