What’s the perfect follow-up to a gritty tale of crime in 1981 Chicago? Why, it could only be a 1964 Italian social satire of love, family, Sicilian customs, and the law!  Pietro Germi’s Seduced and Abandoned introduces us to our first Criterion comedy.  Linen suits and dolly zooms!

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we’ll be reviewing and discussing Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950).