Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is an Italian comedy made up of three stories, each set in a different city and each following a woman who uses her sexuality to get what she wants from the men around her. In Naples, Adelina sells cigarettes on the black market while her husband is out of work, and repeated pregnancies keep her out of prison. In Milan, a wealthy businessman's wife, Anna, drifts into an affair with a writer until an accident involving her husband's car changes her mind. In Rome, a high-class prostitute named Mara turns the head of a young seminarian who then questions his path to the priesthood. Sophia Loren plays all three women, and Marcello Mastroianni appears opposite her in each episode.

Vittorio De Sica directed the film, working from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Eduardo De Filippo and Billa Billa, with Carlo Ponti producing. It came after Two Women and Boccaccio '70 in De Sica's filmography and before Marriage Italian Style, and it continues the director's collaboration with Loren and Mastroianni. The supporting cast includes Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti, Lino Mattera and Tecla Scarano.

Released in December 1963 and running just under two hours, the film was produced in Italy and France. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.2 from around 11,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7.4 from roughly 480 votes, and it has a critics' rating of 7.1 from nine reviews, placing the two audiences and the critics close together.