Divorce Italian Style

Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Divorzio all’italiana
Date: January 01, 1961 to December 31, 1961
Dates Note: 1961
Country of Origin: Italy
Place of Origin: Italy
Languages: Italian
Color: B&W
Silent: No
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Curator Notes

Film Series/Exhibition Title: 
Marcello Mastroianni at 100
Description: 

Ferdinando Cefalú (Marcello Mastroianni) is a model member of Sicily’s good-for-nothing aristocracy: lazy and impossibly vain, he seems to spend most of his time skulking around his ancestors’ decrepit villa in pajamas, eyebrows smugly arched, mouth pulled into a perpetual pout under a fussy mustache. Cefalú’s problem: he’s disgusted by his wife’s overbearing affections and smitten with a nymphet cousin. Divorce in Sicily is unthinkable, but the law is lenient in matters of honor; if Signora Cefalú were to take a lover, who could blame her husband for murder? Pietro Germi’s farce skewers every stratum of Sicilian society.

Authors/Roles: 
Juliet Clark


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