TOO BAD SHE'S BAD
Special Features: 4K Restoration
[PECCATO CHE SIA UNA CANAGLIA]
Spotted by director Alessandro Blasetti as she was sunning on the banks of the Po, Sophia Loren was cast in the leading role of crooked bombshell Lina opposite two of Blasetti’s favorite actors, Marcello Mastroianni (in his first major comedic role) and Vittorio De Sica. The cast’s chemistry was evident from the first day of shooting, with Loren recognizing “a kind of complicity that the Neapolitans always have among themselves,” and the film announced her and Mastroianni as one of cinema’s most magnetic on-screen duos. Blasetti’s irresistibly charming and funny adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s short story “Fanatico” roots its screwball antics and rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue in the economic reality of postwar Rome. The film gives Loren a role tailor-made for her inimitable, commanding power to mince and subvert male desire. (Note adapted from Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.) DIR Alessandro Blasetti; SCR Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Sandro Continenza, Ennio Flaiano, from the short story “Fanatico" by Alberto Moravia. Italy, 1954, b&w, 95 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
4K DCP courtesy of Istituto Luce Cinecittà.
Presented with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) of Washington as part of Fare Cinema.
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Genre: Comedy, romance
