The 4K restoration by Cinecittà’s laboratory of Luciano Salce’s film based on Natalia Ginzburg brings back two censored scenes and the light yet biting portrait of 1960s Italy.
A young couple, hastily married after love at first sight, moves through grotesque characters and colorful, psychedelic parties strongly influenced by Pop Art. The relationship between the bourgeois lawyer Pietro – Giorgio Albertazzi, light yet always charismatic—and the eccentric and irresistible Giuliana – an enchanting Monica Vitti – continues despite conflicts and misunderstandings, while his bigoted, moralistic mother condemns their union, throwing their married life into turmoil. In a moralistic society, nonconformist figures like Giuliana inevitably find themselves out of place.
Luciano Salce adapts Natalia Ginzburg’s play with Monica Vitti and Giorgio Albertazzi. Giuliana, a lively and chaotic woman, meets Pietro, a lawyer raised in a traditional bourgeois family: the two marry on a whim, only to be tested by social, cultural, and family difference...
Luciano Salce brings to the screen Natalia Ginzburg’s play of the same name, staged the previous year with Adriana Asti, Renzo Montagnani, and Italia Marchesini, and later adapted by the director into a radio version for RAI Radio 3. Restored in 4K, the film now includes two scenes originally cut by Italian censors and rediscovered among film materials from Paris. A unique opportunity to rediscover a little-known work by a multifaceted and eclectic filmmaker who made history in both Italian cinema and television: works that remain precious documents of our past and, at the same time, strikingly relevant for their innovative spirit and popular appeal.
