Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection

Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection
by Pietro Germi

Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Daniela Rocca, Leopoldo Trieste, Marcello Mastroianni, Odoardo Spadaro, Stefania Sandrelli
Director: Pietro Germi
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion

Movie Reviews of Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection

Movie Review: Absolutamente, Si. . .
Summary: 5 Stars

I purchased the other version a few years before the Criterion one came out. This is obviously more superior above and beyond the quality. It was cool to re-discover this movie. If you have other versions, you don't have the whole flick. This is worth it.

Summary of Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection

Mastroianni stars in this classic italian farce as baron cefalu who tiring of his wife plans to escape his marriage using a little known law allowing cuckolded husbands to murder their spouses in defense of their honor. So now he has to find a lover for his wife. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 04/26/2005 Starring: Marcello Mastroianni Run time: 104 minutes
Divorce Italian Style is a comedy milestone--a brilliant, biting satire that was originally conceived as a drama; directed with nonstop inventiveness by a filmmaker who had never done comedy; and featuring an actor who, though not even among the first dozen players considered, cemented his international stardom with this performance. The movie also marked a breakthrough for foreign film in America, winning popular as well art-house success, Academy Award nominations for director Pietro Germi and star Marcello Mastroianni, and--the first of only a few foreign-language films to do so--the Oscar itself for Original Screenplay.

On the sun-blasted island of Sicily, Baron Ferdinand "Fef?" Cefal? (Mastroianni) breaks out of his heat- and boredom-induced stupor long enough to be smitten with mad passion for his 16-year-old cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli). But he's married--to Rosalia (Daniela Rocca), she of the unfortunate mustache--and the Italian Penal Code gives him no way out... except, of course, for catching his wife in adultery and availing himself of the patriarchal license to commit a "crime of honor." So Fef? searches for a way to fling Rosalia into the arms of another man.

Mastroianni's Fef? is an indelible masterpiece, visually and behaviorally: a portrait in painterly chiaroscuro, with brilliantined hair, eternally drooping eyelids, a cigarette holder angled in perpetual salute, and a manic, conspiratorial slouch, like Groucho Marx on painkillers. Germi's direction hustles the film along with bold, mobile camerawork, stream-of-consciousness lurches into fantasy and flashback, Fef?'s feverish voiceover commentary, and a wonderfully propulsive music score by the late Carlo Rustichelli. --Richard T. Jameson

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