Divorce Italian Style

 

Marcello Mastroianni plays a man who lusts after the young Stefania Sandrelli. However, he is tied down to his wife and divorce is impossible to get in Italy. So, he hatches a plan to get his wife to have an affair with an artist. The end shows him getting what I felt was justice for his behavior. This was pretty funny as was also Seduced and Abandoned also made by Pietro Germi, an underrated director indeed. 

Seduced and Abandoned

Stefania Sandrelli was in three of the best Italian movies of the 1960s (Divorce Italian Style and I knew her well are the others.). Despite this I feel she is not as well-known as she should be. She was an excellent beautiful actress. In this she plays a teenager who gets knocked up and the family tells the man he has to marry her. What follows is a pretty funny comedy. The best scene involves a kidnapping. I was kind of alarmed though at how many times she was called a tramp. I felt it was overdoing it. 

Chandni

 

This is a pretty good Indian movie despite the ending. A beautiful woman is engaged to a man who becomes a cripple from an accident. The cripple becomes a jerk and puts the blame of the accident onto her. She leaves him and gets a new job with a wealthy man who adores her. His family loves her as well. The cripple and the rich man become friends. Soon the cripple begs for her back, leaving her wit the decision to decide which man she should choose. I wasn't pleased with who she chose and most people on Netflix agree with me. 

David and Lisa

 

Don't watch the remake put out by Oprah. It was wretched stick with the original. This is a classic. This is a movie about two misfit teenagers in a mental institution. David is afraid of being touched and Janet plays a schizophrenic who speaks in rhyme. Janet Margolin should have become more of a star. I watched her in Take the money and Run recently too. She had some roles but never as compelling as this. 

Har dil de Pyar karega

 

This had a pretty low rating on imdb.com. It was generic. I'm not saying it was good, but I've seen worse. Salman Khan plays a man who is mistaken for being the husband of a girl in a coma. In the meantime, he falls for her friend Preity Zinta. But things get complicated when the Rani Mukherjee wakes up from her coma and likes him too. This is an attractive cast but there are better movies by all of the actors involved.