A Special Day (#778) USED

Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style) and Marcello Mastroianni (Ladolce vita) are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola (The Family). Though its set in Rome on the historic day in 1938 when Benito Mussolini and the city first rolled out the red carpet for Adolf Hitler, the film takes place entirely in a working-class apartment building, where an unexpected friendship blossoms between a pair of people who havent joined the festivities: a conservative housewife and mother tending to her domestic duties and a liberal radio broadcaster awaiting deportation. Scola paints an exquisite portrait in sepia tones, a story of two individuals helpless in the face of fascisms rise. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Ettore Scola, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New i