Così fan tutte (1982)

Offended by the misogynist remarks of their philosophical friend Don Alfonso, Ferrando and Guglielmc lay bets on the outcome of a game designed to test the fidelity of their respective sweethearts, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, who are on holiday in Naples with their maid, Despina. The two young men agree to obey the instructions of Don Alfonso; they feign a heartbroken departure to the front, only to return a few hours later disguised as a couple of dashing young Albanians, eager to win the favors of the bereaved sisters. The young ladies put up an outraged defense of their virtue, but before long they are yielding to the exotic advances of the Balkan strangers. As the action proceeds the young conspirators become enmeshed by their own plot, and are dismayed to fine. that they are just as fickle as their victims. As the plot unravels, culminating in an absurd double wedding, the quartet of lovers discovers that no one is exempt from the secret inconsistencies of love.

Jonathan Miller