Review of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) by Ken T — 13 Mar 2011

Episodic film chronicling the various ways in which women use sex to their advantage. The film is helmed by Italian Neorealist maestro Vittorio de Sica, but this film is certainly a far cry from the Neorealist movement.

The beautiful Sophia Loren plays three different women in three separate stories. The male who is tormented by her in each is the great Marcello Mastroianni. The first segment about a woman avoiding prison because she is pregnant is the least interesting and slowest (also the longest) but the following parts are outstanding - particularly the second installment where Loren plays a cheating rich wife who just seems to hit every car she comes across while driving.

The striptease in the final section is justly famous. Of course, the film would have been far more daring in its day, it is still wonderfully crafted with Italy's greatest moviestars. Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 1964.