Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection
by Pietro Germi

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Movie Review: A brilliant satire - another Italian movie with universal appeal
Summary: 5 Stars

Summary of Divorce Italian Style - Criterion Collection

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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