3 Notti D'Amore (1964)
Directed by Renato Castellani / Luigi Comencini / Franco Rossi
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
Three different takes on love are presented in this episodic Italian film. The first story begins as a prostitute is involved in an auto wreck and ends up in a body cast. While recuperating, she attempts to seduce a young priest preparing to take his final vows. He does not succumb and instead tries to save her. By the story's end, she has become a nun, and he has left the clergy. The second tale follows a widow as she takes her husband's corpse back to Sicily. En route she makes a few new friends who turn out to be those who killed her husband, who unbeknownst to her was a notorious mafioso. In the last story, a young woman marries a troubled middle-aged man. To help him, she suggests he take a lover. She then finds out he has had one for a long time.
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accident, car, church, compromise, episode, extramarital-affair, gangster, hospital, husband, killing, love, lover, marriage, problems, prostitute/prostitution, religion, soul, widow/widower, casting
