Divorzio all'italiana (1961)'s comments

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Dieguito

Brilliant italian dramatic comedy, very artistic also. Marcello Mastroianni performance is astonishing!

12 years 5 months ago

tommy_leazaq

Amazing performance by Mastroianni. He single handedly carried the entire film.

7 years 10 months ago

GoonerCinephile

Bravo Germi, Bravo Mastroianni

10 years 5 months ago

Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian-Style stars Marcello Mastroianni as a wealthy baron from a small Sicilian town who lusts after his cousin Angela, but strict Catholicism does not allow him to get a divorce. His wife must die, and from that springs an actually quite fun black comedy. As he will later do in Seduced and Abandoned - the other half of this diptych - Germi brings attention to a law on the books that a spouse can get as little as a 3-year sentence if they kill their partner in a righteous jealous fit. But more than that, the film criticizes the entire culture for not just permitting it, but encouraging it "for honor's sake". It's a comedy and not a thriller, so Mastroianni's character keeps getting cuck-blocked, the best laid plans and all that, and we both want him to succeed because of his charm, and fail because it's funnier that way (and besides, poor Rosalia doesn't deserve it in the least, even HE knows that). Germi is quite good at making ostensibly dark material amusing, in this case, with creative waking fantasies about the wife's murder and the flowery defense his attorney might use. It's formally inventive too. Farce with an edge.

3 years 2 months ago

Atreides

Excellent filming and even better as a provocative comedy.

11 years 9 months ago

Shazaaaam

Really, really funny and well made. Surprised this one hasn't cracked the TSPDT list...

12 years 5 months ago

jrod944

hilarious stuff

13 years ago

Public Enemy

Does he divorce her because of her unibrow and mustache?

13 years 3 months ago

Esnaider

Just a testament to how most film "Masterpieces" are all made by disgusting old white males
Aside from that, great cinematography, some good social commentary despite the misogyny
And an amazing acting by Mastroianni, the only one that was seriously acting on this

4 years 5 months ago