What Would Sophia Loren Do?

The title of this film suggests a completely different type of experience than is delivered. The film is neither witty or clever, no pivots to nor insight into the subject. The structure and narrative are dissonant and uninteresting. YET. It's only 32 minutes of your life. It is delightful and, at moments. deeply moving. We all know the "Italian mom" and hey, is there ever too much of Sophia?

A simple story about a grandmother whose idol is Sophia Loren. Now, in her autumn years, the grandmother keeps referring to Loren for guidance in her day to day problems. She tries to imagine what an obviously younger Sophia Loren would do. In this way, she is able to keep some of her youth in the fire. It would appear as if an older adult cannot come to the same conclusion as a very young Sophia Loren. Loren, to say the least, was an opportunist, who married much older and fatter Carlo Ponti. I am very sure there were several young men in Loren's life that were far better looking and had much better physiques. But that was not what she was looking for. She was looking for stardom, and found it under Ponti. I am not sure grandma would be doing the same thing.

I went into this documentary with a different perception of what it actually was about. Confusing, why this lady is comparing herself to the Queen Sophia Loren who I adore and admire, such talent and grace and extreme beauty to this very day.

Sophia's moments are the most and ONLY interesting and beautiful parts of the docu, snippets of her wonderful films etc...Other than that, there is zero point of this documentary!

I always liked Sophia Loren and have watched many of her movies throughout the years, but now I want to watch her entire film catalogue. She started to act in movies at 19!

Yes, Nancy Kulik, an Italian-American idolizes Sophia Loren, but not in a nutty way, and not because she has no life of her own. Mrs. Kulik actually has had a very busy, fulfilling life, complete with an important job, a loving husband, four kids and grandchildren. Through it all, though, she would ask herself what Sophia Loren would do in certain situations she encountered. Later in the film, she gets to meet Sophia Loren, too, and talk to her about their lives.

This could have been a totally charming short film, with some sad moments, but it was wrecked with the showing of the gang rape scene from the movie "Two Women". Totally wrecked. I fast-forwarded through those scenes and then only had partial interest in the film until the end. Whoever decided to include that movie clip in such a warm, fun film made a big, big mistake.