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Article: Divorce Italian Style.(Video recording review)
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- December 22, 2005
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Divorce Italian Style
Directed and cowritten by Pietro Germi; starring Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Daniela Rocca and Leopoldo Trieste. DVD, two discs, B&W, 104 rains., italian dialog with optional English subtitles. A Criterion Collection release, distributed by Image Entertainment, www.imageentertainment.com.
Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style is a movie whose comedy is so broad and its cynicism so deep, it would be reasonable to expect it to have dated rather badly. But Criterion's release of the film, along with an extra disc full of supplementary material, demonstrates its surprising resilience. Germi makes use of just about every ...