Divorce, Italian Style (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
He ordered marriage on the rocks with a twist... Italian Style!
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DVD Details
- High Definition Digital Transfer The Man With A Cigar In His Mouth Documentary Delighting In Contrasts: Collection of Interviews with Filmmaker/Critic Mario Sesti & Actors Stefania Sandrelli & Lando Buzzanca
- Interview with Screenwriter Ennio De Concini
- Rare Screen Test Footage of Actors Stefania Sandrelli & Daniela Rocca
- 28-Page Booklet Featuring Essays by Film Critic Stuart Klawans, Director Martin Scorsese & Film Historian Andrew Sarris
- Language: Italian
- Subtitles: English (Optional)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 26, 2005
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni & Stefania Sandrelli | |
| Performer: | Leopoldo Trieste & Daniela Rocca | |
| Directed by | Pietro Germi | |
| Screenplay by | Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi & Alfredo Giannetti | |
| Written by | Pietro Germi | |
| Composition by | Carlo Rustichelli | |
| Produced by | Franco Cristaldi |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1962 -
Best Original Screenplay: Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini & Pietro Germi
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: A --
Mastroianni, who was Oscar-nominated, truly shines in this wildly funny, darkly humorous Italian comedy, which was a huge international hit.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Murder has rarely been as mirthful (cinematically speaking, of course) as in this uproarious Italian comedy.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 4/4 --
A brilliant comic performance from Mastroianni which has been compared to the deadpan style of Keaton.
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TV Guide
Rating: B --
Wickedly funny black comedy satirizes Italy's antiquated institutions.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Skillfully 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.
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Variety
[A] deeply amoral morality tale.
Village Voice
This classic tickler is the driest and blackest of dry, black comedies...
Entertainment Weekly
Description by OLDIES.com:
Baron Ferdinando Cefalu (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca). His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure his spouse into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to save his honor. The Criterion Collection is proud to present director Pietro Germi's hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture, winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Product Description:
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.
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