YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
Tuesday, March 19 | 7 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM)
Club Fugazi, 678 Green St, San Francisco
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco in collaboration with the Leonardo da Vinci Society San Francisco, Italian Community Services and Club Fugazi Experiences.
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Dir: Vittorio De Sica
Italy/France, 1963, 120 min
Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffré, Armando Trovajoli, Tina Pica
In Italian with English subtitles
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The film Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow is divided into three episodes set in three large Italian cities, all starring the couple formed by Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica on subjects written by many great authors of Italian culture.
Episode 1: Adelina, set in Naples
Naples, Forcella district: Adelina Sbaratti, an illegal cigarette seller, resorts to a long series of maternity leave to avoid being arrested. Prison will be avoided until her husband Carmine is no longer capable of continuing to impregnate his wife.
- Written by Eduardo De Filippo with the collaboration of Isabella Quarantotti. The inspiration comes from the true story of the Neapolitan smuggler Concetta Muccardi, who had nineteen pregnancies to avoid going to prison, seven of which ended in the birth of children. The woman continued to sell contraband cigarettes until her death on November 21, 2001 at the age of seventy-eight.
Episode 2: Anna, set in Milan
Anna is a rich Milanese lady who has a love affair with a man of modest means, almost as if to seek an escape from her arid world. However, a banal incident will be enough to reveal the true value of this superficial relationship.
- Written by Billa Zanuso and Cesare Zavattini. Cinematic expression, in a sarcastic key, of that ruthless criticism of Italian bourgeois society.
Episode 3: Mara, set in Rome
Mara, a high-class call girl, lives in Rome in Piazza Navona in a top floor apartment: among her most loyal customers is Augusto from Bologna. Mara’s neighbor is Giovanna, an elderly and very God-fearing woman, who is temporarily hosting Umberto, her nephew, a seminarian, who falls in love with the call girl without being aware of her profession.Mara and Augustus
Mara initially plays along but realizes she has made a mistake when Umberto threatens to abandon his studies to fully experience the joys of life, thus making her grandmother very sad who then goes to Mara crying to tell her the intention of the young man leaving the seminary. The call girl confides in Umberto, advising him that it wouldn’t be worth ruining everything for her and therefore urging him to follow her vocation.
In the end everything will work out for the best; left alone with Augusto, Mara performs a sensual striptease for him, without however going beyond her, in fact having to give up having sexual relations for a week due to the foil she made so that Umberto would not fail to follow her vocation.
- Written by Cesare Zavattini.