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Marriage Italian Style 1964
Vittorio de Sica may be best remembered for his tragedies (Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D, Two Women etc.) but in the mid-1960’s he also made some excellent comedies, the best of which is Marriage Italian Style. A retelling of Eduardo de Filippo’s famous play Filumena, it tells the story of a twenty year relationship between Don Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni doing what he does best) and Filumena Maturano (a career-best, Oscar-nominated Sophia Loren). Filumena is very much Domenico’s ‘kept woman’; he saves…
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Woman in the Dunes 1964
Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1964 masterpiece is one of the indisputable high points of Japanese New Wave cinema. Woman in the Dunes is a two-and-a-half hour film which never outstays its welcome, utterly gripping from start to finish. Adapted from the 1962 novel by Kōbō Abe, it tells the story of an entomologist who travels to a seaside town to search for rare insects. He is tricked by the locals into staying overnight with a strange woman living alone at the bottom…
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Secrets of the Heart 1997
This little-known gem from Spanish writer/director Montxo Armendáriz was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar of 1997, and boasts a fine ensemble cast. Armendáriz coaxes some beautifully natural performances out of his child actors, particularly from lead actor Andoni Erburu who plays Javi, a nine year old boy growing up in 1960’s Francoist Spain. The film is told from his perspective, and we see him learning about the world through the lies and half-truths his family tell him. This…
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