The cast are perfect, the always watchable Mastroianni excelling in a tailor-made role.
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05/24/03
Divorce, Italian Style (1962)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:16
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Leopoldo Trieste, Stefania Sandrelli
Director: Pietro Germi
Reviews for Divorce, Italian Style
1 - 16 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticIf you’re in the mood for a cynical, time-traveling Italian vacation, you couldn’t do much better than this.
11/07/08
Years ahead of its time.
11/08/07
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11/08/07
[A] deeply amoral morality tale.
11/06/07
A brilliant comic performance from Mastroianni which has been compared to the deadpan style of Keaton.
11/06/07
Top CriticSkillfully written, with a penetrating, almost brutal glimpse of Sicily and its antiquated way of life, it has been directed by Pietro Germi with lagless pace and consistent incisiveness, evoking constant chuckles rather than isolated guffaws.
11/06/07
Top CriticWickedly funny black comedy satirizes Italy's antiquated institutions.
06/15/06
No review available.
06/17/05
Murder has rarely been as mirthful (cinematically speaking, of course) as in this uproarious Italian comedy.
05/06/05
It is the most subversive jab at Mastrioanni’s chauvinist characters possible, circumstantial metaphysics in which the lecher is targeted by the very film he inhabits.
04/29/05
a black and silly exercise in hilarity
04/18/05
No review available.
03/27/04
No review available.
08/22/03
This is one of the funniest pictures the Italians have sent along.
05/20/03
Top CriticIt remains a terrific entertainment, a European corollary to Preston Sturges.
01/16/02
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