If you loved French Cancan, try Marriage Italian Style

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the cozy, cult, devastating, foreign gem mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to French Cancan, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Marriage Italian Style is

Here's a film that asks: can a certain kind of woman get a man to do the right thing? A long-term affair in Naples results in children and endless promises of marriage, so she feigns a mortal illness to force his hand. It's a crowd-pleaser, if a rather dated one.

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