The three episodes are very different from each other both in character and circumstances, as the first one, the longest, is from Sophia Loren's own grassroots in the poor quarters of Naples, the second, the shortest, dealing with the ennui of rich people in Milan. and the third, being an excellent script by Cesare Zavattini., showing the interior of the life of a well off prostitute in Rome and her traffic, involving a seminarist studying to become a priest, who because of her finds himself in an existentialist crisis and wants to escape to the foreign legion, while Sophia Loren turns to the opposite of what she is and actually shows talents for a saint in respectable psychology. Although the first episode is the best and most hilarious as a perfect comedy, the third is the most humanly interesting and well written. It is Vittorio de Sica, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni all three at their best, and of course Cesare Zavattini adds excellence to it. I saw it 50 years ago, and it was delightful to see it again. although I remembered it well, which happened to be on the very day of Marcello Mastroianni's death in 1996 at 72.