Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Crappy film

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, they were a wonderful, magnificent couple, perhaps the greatest pair of actors in the history of the cinema. They are both super-charming and very different (chameleonic) in these 3 different episodes. Very beautiful Sophia, the most beautiful of all her other films. Vittorio De Sica, one of the greatest film directors ever, a very gifted artist, he knew life so well, like nobody else, and he knew those special secrets to translate true life, with joy, humor and sadness, on screen, a great conductor of actors.

{{{ Fandor.com has this film available for online viewing in a version tat has none of the technical problems cited in other reviews here about this film.}}} Vittorio Di Sica's Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow (1963), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren is a very entertaining and artistic film. This is a three segment film, with each segment telling a story about a completely different romantically involved couple, and with very different circumstances in each story. The romantic couple in each story, each segment, is portrayed by Mastroianni and Loren.The acting performances by Mastroianni and Loren in this film as a whole are outstanding. Each segment of this film, being such a different type story from the others, required them to veritably assume a different personality in each segment. Both Mastroianni and Loren did so very convincingly. This film, and its three divergent story lines, required a real chemistry between these two heavyweights of Italian cinema, which they apparently have. It is really amazing to watch these two fine actors in this film act in unison in each segment, acting as though the persona of the character in each individual segment was conceived and written just for them.There is no deep "meaning" or esoteric symbolism in this film. It is just great storytelling at its best. "Just spinning a good yarn" times three. Yet, Di sico's excellent direction, and the excellent performances by both Mastroianni and Loren, brings some difficult to comprehend type of cohesion to these three divergent stories, as if each segment was just a part of a comprehensive whole story. I would suppose that this "comprehensive whole story" might just be called "the story of life". Each divergent story segment is a little "slice of life", somehow fitting into the larger "slice of life" that is the whole film.This film has great artistic merit in that it convincingly portrays, and even celebrates in a way, the very "stuff of life", of everyday life, of your life and mine. This is an artistic film inasmuch it successfully portrays the relentless and indomitable spirit of life, of mundane and ordinary everyday life.

This very enjoyable film may be a let down for someone expecting the heights of De Sica's Neorealist masterpieces like The Bicycle Thief or Two Women. However it is very funny in parts and is pointedly critical of Italian society in the boom years of the 1960s. Also Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are absolutely stunning to watch.For people interested in Italy it is a fascinating commentary on the country that can border on stereotype. Naples (De Sica's hometown) is warm and happy and filled with clever types ready to outwit the system and find their own way to happiness. Milan is cold, rich, and callous. Rome is dominated by the Catholic church and the State with plenty of hypocrisy and corruption. But De Sica finds some humor in all of this.I found it a little too sentimental but well worth watching. I wish a better (undubbed) print were available. De Sica's career was given a boost by the success of the movie and he would continue to make more great films like The Garden of the Finzi-Contini's and the underrated A Brief Vacation that focus on the injustices of the State and the hardships faced by working people.

Wasn't too bad, but wasn't the best either. Sophia Loren is smokin' hot in this, like usual, and particularly the strip tease at the end. Little disappointed they stopped some of the tease, such as going from mostly covered down to bra without showing the clothes coming off. I could imagine how Marcello's character is losing his mind watching this. Overall, I'd have to agree that the second vignette was the weakest, and also happened to be the shortest.My biggest issue is the DVD print I watched. I don't know if there's a new edition out, but an academy award winning film should at least be seen in letterbox format, instead of what looks like a poor quality VHS transfer.