A bored upper-class Sicilian (Mastroianni) has grown tired of his wife and would rather marry his attractive cousin. Unfortunately, divorce is illegal in Italy. Therefore, he decides to find a lover for his wife and murder her out of "jealousy". A hilarious farce about love and marriage. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Director, Best Actor-Marcello Mastroianni.
Director Pietro Germi's hilarious and pointed satire of Italian marital conventions is the prototypical Italian sex comedy.
Ferdinando Cefalu, a handsome Sicilian nobleman, longs to marry his beautiful nubile cousin Angela. There's only one problem: he's already married. Living in a society that frowns on divorce but forgives crimes of passion, Ferdinando devises a plan. He plots to prove his wife an adulteress, after which he can kill her and marry his cousin with impunity.
A co-production of Lux-Vides-Galatea.
Copyright 1962, 1990 Lux-Vides-Galatea Film.
DVD Features:
Note: This release is a newly restored High-Definition digital transfer and new and improved English subtitles.
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dobly Digital Mono 2.0 - Italian
Disc 1: DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE
Disc 2: Special Features
Documentary - 1. PIETRO GERMI: THE MAN WITH THE CIGAR IN HIS MOUTH (39 minutes).
Additional Footage - 1. Screen Test with Daniela Rocca and Stefania Sandrelli
Video Interview - 1. DELIGHTING IN CONTRASTS - 30 minute interview
2. Ennio De Concini - Screen Writer
Additional Products:
28-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stuart Klawans and reprinted pieces by Martin Scorsese and film historian Andrew Sarris
Writer
Pietro Germi: Italian Director/Screenwriter
Review 1:
"Mastroianni gives one of the most detailed and amusing performances of his career."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.83 07/01/2005
Review 2:
"...[A] still funny spoof of Italy's divorce laws....Capped by a satisfying final gag..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
Source: USA Today
p.3D 05/29/1992
Review 3:
"This classic tickler is the driest and blackest of dry, black comedies..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.60 05/20/2005
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