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Laserdisc Title: "TILL MARRIAGE DO US PART (1979)"
Edition: Fullscreen Edition (Single Disc)
Directed By: Luigi Comencini
Starring: Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Jean Rochefort
Special Features: ---Original Uncut English Language Version---
Production / Year: 1979 Franklin Media Corp.
Running Time: 97 Minutes / Color
Audio Format: Dual-Channel Sound
Video Format: NTSC, CLV (Extended Play)
Miscellaneous Features: None
Distributed By: Vestron Video
Catalog / Spine Number: VL 3005

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Very Good - Few very light to very minor hairline surface swirls or very light fingerprint marks
Jacket: Good - Normal shelf wear, few creases, light scuffs, worn-out corners or edges but no obvious signs of spines splitting

Synopsis:

The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.

Back in the 1970's, sultry, Yugoslav-born Laura Antonelli was one of the queens of Italian cinema, particularly in the genre of the erotic farce. "Till Marriage Do Us Part" (the original Italian title translates more or less as "My God, How Low I've Fallen!", which Antonelli's character exclaims in dismay after a steamy encounter) is one of her funniest and sexiest. The plot is fairly simple; Eugenia (Antonelli), a beautiful aristocrat, finds out on her wedding night that her new husband is actually her brother. Since there's the little matter of an inheritance that will be lost if the marriage is annulled, she stays married - and stays a virgin. Eventually, though, she loses that virginity, though exactly how she does it you'll have to see. Over and above the erotic hijinks, though, the film has lots of gentle but pointed commentary on the mores and manners of turn-of-the-century/World War I Italy (if you know who Gabriele D'Annunzio was, it'll make some of the jokes and set pieces funnier; it also helps to know that Italy tried and failed to conquer Ethiopia in the 1890's, and did conquer Libya just before World War I).

Laura Antonelli brings whole new dimensions to the word "luscious" in this movie. She makes the seemingly stock character of the barely-reluctant virgin come alive in her scenes with Placido, thanks to her big eyes and adorably trembling lower lip. And then there's that body...

In addition, "Marriage" has a lot of wry commentary on Italy of the early 1900s. The upper class were a ragingly nationalist bunch not unlike some sectors of the U.S. populace today. (It helps the enjoyment of the film if one knows who Gabriele d'Annunzio was.) A conscript's baleful response to a officer's 'fire them up' speech is the funniest line of the film, one I haven't forgotten.

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