A Slice of Life (1954 film)
1954 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot
A Slice of Life (Italian: Tempi nostri, French: Quelques pas dans la vie, also known as The Anatomy of Love) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and Paul Paviot.
Plot
Mara
From a story by Vasco Pratolini, written by the author.
Vasco and Mara get to know in a restaurant, go to the cinema, and spent the evening intimately, fall in love. She tells him that, being short of money, will try to work the next morning in a brothel, but he convinces her to desist from this connection, to begin to live with him, who has a job as a teacher, even if their economic situation may be difficult.
The baby
Written by Alberto Moravia.
Young couple the suburbs of Rome are in financial trouble. She would like to work, but must take care of the child who has recently given birth. The two then set out, reluctantly, to leave the baby in a church, but the mother can not decide on the right place and finally the father has second thoughts.
Outdoor scene
From a story of Marino Moretti, written by Ennio Flaiano.
A man and a woman no longer young, fallen nobility, meet again by chance after many years as they are worded as film extras in a carriage in motion.
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