Marriage Italian Style
Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy. Domenico, a successful businessman with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with…
Marriage Italian Style
Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy. Domenico, a successful businessman with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is still only 17 years old. She becomes a sex worker, but also becomes Domenico's mistress. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannies. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee, and Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage; Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. Could all of them be his? Domenico marries Filumena again, this time willingly. —Steve Jordan <jordan@warwick.net> In Naples, 40-year-old Filumena Marturano has been rushed home, deathly ill, from the bakery where she works. When she requests not a doctor but a priest at this time, 50-year-old multiple-business-owner Domenico Soriano--Dummi' in more familiar settings--who is looking after her, reflects on the 22 years they have known each other. Their initial meeting was during the war in a house of ill repute, she a naive, 17-year-old fresh from the country working there, he a customer--though not hers. It wouldn't be until two years later that they would run into each other again and begin this off-and-on relationship, in which he would always have the upper hand, manipulating her and the situation to his benefit which he knew he could do because of his relative economic standing compared to hers, and the fact that he knew that she has always been in love with him. The nature of their relationship was also as it was due to his frequent absences for work, often months at a time. This situation allowed him to have other women in his life at the same time. The story then shifts to an aspect of Filumena's life of which Dummi' has been unaware: her long-term relationships with three men he doesn't know: Umberto, a student; Riccardo, a glove salesman; and Michele, a mechanic; the three also don't know one another. When Dummi' finds out about them, he must decide how it will affect his life and his thoughts of Filumena. —Huggo Wealthy Domenico has had a long love affair with Filumena, whom he's been happy to keep as a mistress but nothing more. The problem comes when she grows tired of being kept to the side and hatches a plan to become a bigger part of his life. —yusufpiskin Domenico first meets Filumena in a Neapolitan brothel in the Second World War. After the war they become lovers on and off for 22 years. Domenico eventually rents an apartment for Filumena and even lets her run his shop. Finally Filumena asks Domenico to marry her on her deathbed, just before he had planned to marry his young cashier. —Will Gilbert
Marriage Italian Style
Comedy,Drama,Romance
Film Details
Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy. Domenico, a successful businessman with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is still only 17 years old. She becomes a sex worker, but also becomes Domenico's mistress.
He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannies. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee, and Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying.
Domenico annuls the marriage; Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. Could all of them be his? Domenico marries Filumena again, this time willingly.
—Steve Jordan <jordan@warwick.net> In Naples, 40-year-old Filumena Marturano has been rushed home, deathly ill, from the bakery where she works. When she requests not a doctor but a priest at this time, 50-year-old multiple-business-owner Domenico Soriano--Dummi' in more familiar settings--who is looking after her, reflects on the 22 years they have known each other. Their initial meeting was during the war in a house of ill repute, she a naive, 17-year-old fresh from the country working there, he a customer--though not hers.
It wouldn't be until two years later that they would run into each other again and begin this off-and-on relationship, in which he would always have the upper hand, manipulating her and the situation to his benefit which he knew he could do because of his relative economic standing compared to hers, and the fact that he knew that she has always been in love with him. The nature of their relationship was also as it was due to his frequent absences for work, often months at a time. This situation allowed him to have other women in his life at the same time.
The story then shifts to an aspect of Filumena's life of which Dummi' has been unaware: her long-term relationships with three men he doesn't know: Umberto, a student; Riccardo, a glove salesman; and Michele, a mechanic; the three also don't know one another. When Dummi' finds out about them, he must decide how it will affect his life and his thoughts of Filumena. —Huggo Wealthy Domenico has had a long love affair with Filumena, whom he's been happy to keep as a mistress but nothing more.
The problem comes when she grows tired of being kept to the side and hatches a plan to become a bigger part of his life. —yusufpiskin Domenico first meets Filumena in a Neapolitan brothel in the Second World War. After the war they become lovers on and off for 22 years.
Domenico eventually rents an apartment for Filumena and even lets her run his shop. Finally Filumena asks Domenico to marry her on her deathbed, just before he had planned to marry his young cashier. —Will Gilbert.