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"Love in the City"
Directed by: 
Dino Risi/Michelangelo Antonioni/Federico Fellini/Carlo Lizzani/Cesare Zavattini/Francesco Maselli/Alberto Lattuada

One of the best omnibus films, which brought together the best Italian filmmakers of the '50s. The episodes are: The Spectator, by Dino Risi; When Love Fails, by Antonioni; Love Cheerfully Arranged (also known as The Matrimonial Agency), by Fellini; Paid Love, by Carlo Lizzani; The Love of a Mother, by Zavattini and Maselli and Italy Turns Around, by Alberto Lattuada. The inspiration for the film is said to have been Zavattini; particularly notable are the Antonioni episode, in which unsuccessful suicides tell why they blame disappointment in love for trying to end their lives, and the very funny Fellini episode, in which a client (played by Fellini) at a matrimonial agency pretends that he is searching for a wife for a friend who thinks he is a werewolf. Italian with English subtitles.  90 minutes.