The film: 

The young Augusto Genina directs this matrimonial comedy with verve, capturing the right tone and rhythm. The Count and Countess Valmonte are a likeable and close-knit couple, but he spends too many evenings at his club, at least as far as she is concerned. Is there something behind these absences? From perfumed letters laden with suspicion and afternoon squabbles, the Countess decides to act and sets in motion a plan to catch her supposedly cheating husband in flagrante. The consequences of this action are both unforeseen and difficult to manage. Genina entrusts his craft to his actors, and in particular to Bianca Virginia Camagni, who is on top-form. The actress manages to convey the comic rhythms while still creating a fully-rounded character for Laura, in so doing demonstrating a particular ability in loading props with express significance: the letter addressed to her husband that she cannot decide whether to open; the cigarettes clasped in trembling hands; and a go-between’s glove abandoned in the wrong place.

The film restoration: 

La gelosia (1915, Milano Films) was preserved ed by Museo Nazionale del Cinema of Turin from a tinted nitrate positive held by the Museum. The original colorization was reproduced using the same techniques of tinting and toning as when the film was produced. The laboratory printed a dupe negative and one positive tinted copy on a safety base from the nitrate print.

The preservation was conducted in 1989 at the Bruno Favro laboratory in Torino.

Link Vimeo Cineteca MNC:

https://vimeo.com/1073126353

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