Help Me My Love

Another charming romantic comedy anchored by Monica Vitti’s presence, this team-up with director/costar Alberto Sordi casts the two as a couple who are married happily—in no small part due to their open relationship. But cracks in their blissful arrangement form when Vitti meets a fortysomething professor at a chamber music concert and becomes infatuated with him. Sordi and Vitti—the box office king and queen of Italian cinema at the time—are magnetic and hilarious as a couple whose abrupt crisis comically sends up the era’s sexual mores, and Sordi is especially touching as a man who, by way of his contradictions, finds himself falling in love with his wife anew. Print courtesy of Cinecittà.