Till Marriage Do Us Part

Till Marriage Do Us Part

1974 · 110 min · IT · 6.0 (24 votes)
Dir. Luigi Comencini · Starring Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Jean Rochefort, Ugo Pagliai, Rosemary Dexter · Music Fiorenzo Carpi
Comedy

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.

VIBE

A scandalous, darkly comedic romp through forbidden desires and societal pressures. It's a tragicomic exploration of duty versus desire, wrapped in the opulent yet suffocating atmosphere of a bygone era.

darkly comedicscandalousabsurdisttragicomicsteadyEuropean arthouseperiod dramadark comedyincestscandalforbidden desiresocial facade
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