Pan, amor y...

Aesthetically pleasing, kind of boring. Sophia and her boyfriend have issues haha.

This kind of reminded me of the Greek love dramas I used to watch when I was younger. Though I don't remember the age gaps, which surely must have existed in many of those movies too. It was all about love. In this case that's not entirely true. Esepecially for the female main character in this. Sophia Loren had a reputation as a person, which one cannot seem to be able to distinguish from some of her roles.

What can she do though? She had the looks, it's not like she isn't or wasn't able to play anything else. Which I think she's proving even now in a recent production on Netflix. I haven't seen that one yet, but just from some flashes of the trailer one can tell, she has not lost her touch. And speaking of which, her touch is something two men crave here. One older, the other one younger. With all the teasing and all the other stuff happening too. A drama that will touch some and will others indifferent. But you can't blame the movie for not keeping it real amongst all the fun it has ...

Enjoy it for the colorful scenery and De Sica as the aging lady's man.

I don't know, this Sorrento scandal seemed pretty mild to me. There's a small town and Sophia Loren is in the town and so more than one person wants to be with Sophia Loren and there are some sort of comedic moments and then it kind of ends.

It gets by because Loren had star power, and because it's a colorful film that makes good use of its seaside setting. I guess to some extent, I appreciated how drama-free it was, with little sentimentality or forced tension/conflict later in the film. It really just felt like it was trying to be a fairly gentle comedy about some love-related chaos, and a little escapism as a result.

It's not essential and probably won't be memorable in time (to me), but it felt like it did what it wanted to do. Scandal in Sorrento isn't really ambitious at all, from what I can tell, but it does succeed at being decent. That's more than can be said for some movies, and I do also want to go a tiny bit easier on this one because of its age.

I remembered seeing it on Italian TV as a child and even then I liked it, seeing it again yesterday, I thought it wouldn't resist the test of time, instead, I throughly enjoyed it.... for all the qualities you don't see in films nowadays, (especially in modern Italian films).

Briefly, a tale of a cultivated(Vittorio de Sica), educated, charming middle-aged womanizing, newly installed chief of the traffic police (complete with resplendid uniform including white gloves), whom on arriving at his long lost native Sorrento , finds his family home occupied/squatted by a beautiful fishmonger (sofia Loren, at her most splendid).While starting procedures of evicting her he also starts courting her, with poetic citations, charming one liners and complements, inducing the jealousy of her semi - boyfriend/suitor.Complicating matters further, the haunty, aloof but good looking noble woman owner of the house where Vittorio is temporarily living , falls for Vittorio.But all this happens in a semi comic and humorous vein...after all it's a romantic comedy. The film ends with a typical happy ending...but the whole film is held up by the old world charms of Vittorio de Sica....Sofia loren acted well too.

I sometimes wonder if its possible nowadays to make a remake of this film, ....but sometimes I feel it wouldn't work....no female nudity,no profanitites, no sex, and no vulgarities...while I feel I'm in a minority in appreciating good taste, it seems not so with, modern day film or/and TV producers who always want to 'modernize' their 'art' with the aforementioned charateristics. A real pity,... perhaps a new film style could be a return to class and good taste.