This screening will be introduced by Dr Olga Campofreda.

Monica Vitti stars here as Giuliana, the slightly whacky girl with whom bourgeois lawyer Pietro (Giorgio Albertazzi) meets cute at a bohemian bacchanal. Just as quickly, the two get married, setting the stage for a humorous study of then-contemporary romance and the state of sexual politics in Italy. Something of a time capsule, I Married You for Fun contributed significantly to Vitti branching out from the inscrutable Antonioni talisman to becoming more synonymous with Italian cinema in the 1960s.

Olga Campofreda is an Italian writer, researcher and curator. She is the author of Ragazze perbene (NNE, 2023) and Camerette (Quanti Einaudi, 2023), while her articles featured on D – la Repubblica delle donne and Domani editoriale. Since 2024 she is the curator of the Miu Miu Literary Club.

Cast:
Monica Vitti, Giorgio Albertazzi, Michel Bardinet