{"id":1348,"date":"2014-06-27T16:56:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:38:28","slug":"that-marriage-is-a-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"That marriage is a lemon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lemon - Directed by Hollis Frampton (1969, 7 Mins)\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gnz1pIy6l4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0130817\/\">Lemon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1969)<\/p>\n<p>This avant-garde film by Hollis Frampton is an elaborate, eight minute practical joke, yet somehow this was released by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Criterion_Collection\">Criterion Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FCC3HG7%2Ffilm-posters-marriage-italian-style-1964-directed-by-vittorio-de-sica-CC3HG7.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=e1b852641576015e7210992a7aa77c1e1bcca10d2728289cc0f800d42cab152e\" alt=\"Sophia loren marcello mastroianni directed hi-res stock photography and ...\" width=\"333\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058335\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Marriage Italian Style<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1964)<\/p>\n<p>Prostitute Filomena (Sophia Loren) fakes an illness and convinces her long time paramour Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) to marry her on her &#8220;deathbed.&#8221; After her recovery, she convinces him to stay married for the sake of their child.<\/p>\n<p>Loren is a wonderful comic performer and\u00a0possesses a rare ability to turn a comic scene into a poignant one by batting an eye. She&#8217;s always sexy because she understood sex appeal was more about what wasn&#8217;t seen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite rarely making English language films, Mastroianni managed to achieve considerable success in America. \u00a0Through his work with Frederico Fellini, his carefully crafted image of sophistication and detachment has become a continental European stereotype.<\/p>\n<p>Director Vittoria de Sica ushered in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_neorealism\">neorealism<\/a>\u00a0with <em>The Bicycle Thief <\/em>(1948), but this proves he also possessed a healthy sense of absurdist humor.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of the current debate about competing definitions of marriage, this delightful film helps us understand how marriage has evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lemon\u00a0(1969) This avant-garde film by Hollis Frampton is an elaborate, eight minute practical joke, yet somehow this was released by the\u00a0Criterion Collection. &nbsp; &nbsp; Marriage Italian Style\u00a0(1964) Prostitute Filomena (Sophia Loren) fakes an illness and convinces her long time paramour Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) to marry her on her &#8220;deathbed.&#8221; After her recovery, she convinces&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/?p=1348\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That marriage is a lemon!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[990,989,376,992,721,991,993],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-progress","tag-avant-garde","tag-hollis-frampton","tag-italian-films","tag-marcello-mastroianni","tag-short-films","tag-sophia-loren","tag-vittoria-de-sica","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14864,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/14864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tenkmovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}