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Filumena Marturano (Neapolitan: [filuˈmɛːnə martuˈrɑːnə], Italian: [filuˈmɛːna martuˈraːno]), sometime performed in English as The Best House in Naples, is a play written in 1946 by Italian playwright, actor and poet Eduardo De Filippo.
Nov 7, 2023 · "Filumena Marturano" is a snippet of life, a domestic story among many others in the bustling city of Naples. In an elegant house in the southern city, we sneak in through a partially open window and come face to face with a scene of a terrible marital crisis.
Aug 7, 2019 · Mourners surround Filomena, who minutes away from exhaling one last time, gives a faint smile to a wistful priest. The holy man has fulfilled her lifelong dream: being married to Domingo, her on-and-off partner of 25 years who refused to wed until the moment of her death.
In "Marriage Italian Style" there is an underlying true story, that is the poverty, traditional roles and status of women. Filumena (Sophia Loren) is one of the many girls in Italy during and after the war, who had very few choices to survive: become a maid, or a wife, or a prostitute.
Aug 6, 2019 · The drama in “Filomena Marturano: Un Matrimonio a la Caribeña” begins before the curtain rises. Behind a sheer fabric that covers the stage at Repertorio Español, we glimpse a deathbed scene.
Oct 12, 1998 · Judi Dench‘s Filumena Marturano learns to cry at the end of “Filumena,” and so persuasive does Dench make the thawing of her character that an audience is tempted to join in the tears. Much ...
Jul 26, 2017 · In Eduardo De Filippo’s classic Neapolitan tale, Filumena, a former prostitute, has been living with with shopkeeper Domenico for 25 years. Domenico would like to marry the young Diana, but Filumena feigns mortal illness to convince Domenico to marry her in extremis, which he does.
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