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Just so you know, divorce is now permitted in Italy. But in 1962, the only arrangement you could catch a divorce was by… well, “Divorce Italian Style,” a ka bumping off your adulterous spouse. This delightfully warped dismal comedy focuses on that very view — a disgruntled husband who goes to absurd lengths to fetch a “divorce.”
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Ferdinando Cefalú (Marcello Mastroianni) is a middle-aged Sicialian expedient who is displeased with his life, and his adoring wife Rosalia (Daniela Rocca) . In factual midlife-crisis fashion, he falls for his angelic-looking cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but he can’t gather a divorce. Divorce isn’t allowed in Italy at this time, so Ferdinando is left stewing over his problems, fantasizing about murdering Rosalia.
But then he hears about an strange law: if an adulterous spouse is caught in flagrante, then the wronged spouse can raze the adulterer and procure off with a light prison sentence. So Ferdinando starts desperately searching for a potential lover for Rosalia, but she remains faithful. Then he locates an ex-boyfriend of hers, hoping to rekindle the venerable flame. But nothing goes quite according to idea…
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Yes, it’s a bit sick. But in such a humorous plot that it really doesn’t offend. At a positive point it becomes less about Ferdinando trying to slay his wife, as it is an increasingly overwrought attempt to accept her to commit adultery. Not to mention a spoof on frail views on “family honor,” where it is more horrible to NOT ruin your adulterous spouse than it is to do so.
Ferdinando carefully straddles the line between being slime and being a droll character — his surreal slay fantasies are hilarious, such as when he shoves Rosalia into a vat of soap. And in keeping with the spoof atmosphere, the romance is overemotional, the fighting is overwrought, and the contrived adultery/murder blueprint is absurd. The final scene is the final tragicomic flourish, hinting at future anguish that Ferdinando deserves.
Pietro Germi at first seems to be making an offensive movie, but viewing it with a sense of humor shows that he’s poking fun, and making wry social observations. He was also not above plugging Mastroianni’s other movies — one scene has a priest denouncing “La Dolce Vita,” followed by crowds rushing to eye it. Ferdinando’s future brother-in-law ogles the pleasing Anita Eckberg, then snappy tells his fiancee that Eckberg is delicate, but “she has no soul.”
The immortal Mastroianni injects fair enough humanity into Ferdinando to sustain us from loathing him — in the middle of a midlife crisis, he seems increasingly confused as the movie goes on. Daniela Rocca sits on the fence between being devoted and annoying, while Sandrelli plays a girl who acts like an angel, but definitely isn’t.
Thankfully Italian spouses no longer have to bump each other off to come by a “divorce,” but “Divorce Italian Style” remains a classic gloomy comedy/social satire.
I’ve never even heard of this movie before, I only rented it cause I’m on a wonderful quest (unprejudiced like a knight!) to notice every Criterion DVD. And I’m gratified I did cause this movie is hilarious! I loved it. I’d even select a copy if I wasn’t flat broke.
Aristocrat Fefe cannot stand his wife. Loud, annoying, crazy facial hair she grates on his nerves all day then wants to cuddle, etc all night. Yuck! Lucky for him though there is a 16-year-old hottie next door that is in admire with him. Yes!
Now all he has to do is bag rid of his wife, but since divorce is illegal he’s unprejudiced gonna have to demolish her, but that means prison unless! Unless he catches her in the arms of another man then he’ll secure less than 3 years! But who would ever want to be with his wife?
Flawlessly directed with an almost psychotic intensity I contemplate I grinned like an idiot the entire movie. And the performance! Everybody was sizable, but Marcello Mastroianni was absolutely luminous. I’d laugh even when he was impartial standing around thinking.
Double feature this with THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH.
D: Pietro Germi (MY FRIENDS, SEDUCED AND ABANDONED)
W: Ennio De Concini (SALON KITTY, Sunless SUNDAY)
Ferdinando Cefalu - Marcello Mastroianni (LA DOLCE VITA, 8 1/2)
Rosalina Cefalu - Daniela Rocca (THE SUCKER, Discover A PALE HORSE)
Angela - Stefania Sandrelli (1900, THE CONFORMIST)
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