Sunday in Naples with Sophia Loren …….

This Sunday we sat down to watch Yesterday Today Tomorrow.*

My Wikipedia tells me that,“it is a 1963 comedy anthology film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica.

It stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. 

The film consists of three short stories about couples in different parts of Italy.” 

Now for Rosa the film was a hit, not least because the first story shot in Naples was where she was born and grew up, and the scenes were ones she was familiar with.

More so because she left the city just three years before the film was released.

For Tina and me all three stories resonated. Tina grew up just north of Milan and I have always been drawn back to Rome while both of us love Naples.

Moreover Tina and her siblings grew up speaking Neapolitan at home and “official Italian” at school, at work and to their friends.

So we all found something in the three stories.

And of course it underlined that marvel of technology that the three of could sit in our front room and watch an Italian movie beamed from a popular Italian T V station before swapping to the very popular In Sunday which takes over the whole of the afternoon and early evening on Rai 1, before switching late in the evening to BBC.

Location; 1963

Pictures; stills from Yesterday Today Tomorrow

* Ieri, oggi, domani, 1963

**Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday,_Today_and_Tomorrow