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 differences. Through brisk dialogues and everyday clashes, the film captures 1960s Italy, caught between tradition and change.
Described by Luigi Locatelli as “a soap bubble, fragile to the point of inconsistency,” the film remains faithful to Ginzburg’s writing, which turns minimal narrative material into vivid characters and pressing themes: divorce, abortion, class barriers. A comedy that, beneath its lightness, dismantles the myths of love and social conventions.