Ninth session of Carta Branca to Luis Miguel Cintra, a film, talks and conference programme accompanying the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Pequeno Teatro do Mundo. This session will feature a screening of Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (1955).

THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH

Billy Wilder | USA | 1955 | 105'

Presented as ‘the most hilarious comedy since the invention of laughter’, the so-called ‘seven-year itch’ refers to the desire to be unfaithful after seven years of marriage, and the will and desire to satisfy its own sexual urges. Adapted from a 1952 Broadway play of the same name by George Axelrod (co-written by Wilder), with Tom Ewell reprising his Broadway role. Billy Wilder built the entire film from the elaboration of the first scene of his directorial debut, The Major and the Minor (1942). Although the play was about a real-life affair, in the film it was modified due to the Hays Code, at the height of its application, which even led to many of the play's best lines being cut.