Based on one of the most successful Italian plays ever, “Filumena Marturano” by playwright and philosopher Eduardo De Filippo, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE is an exhilarating comedy (nominated for two Oscars® — Best Foreign Picture and Best Actress) starring a combative Sophia Loren as a woman who’ll stop at nothing to keep her lover. Both Loren and co-star Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, 8½) are more irrepressible than ever, their talent, exquisite timing, and sheer chemistry — emphasised by the direction of award-winning Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D., Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) — exploding onto the screen. Filumena is the lifetime mistress of a wealthy playboy who is planning to leave her and marry another woman. She will do anything in her power to stop this and marry him instead, including revealing that she has had three children she kept hidden from him, one of whom is his — but which one? A powerful balance of comedy and drama, with extraordinary performances from Mastroianni and Loren at their best, the film is presented for the first time on video both in subtitled Italian and spoken English, enabling a new appreciation of this quintessential play, first brought to the UK by Franco Zeffirelli and later showcased by Peter Hall with Dame Judi Dench. A timeless comedy of our all-too-human foibles.