Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

wmoscaduran This classic Italian film is a comedy that tells the story of Ferdinando Cefalu who is unhappily married for 15 years, but he falls in love with his wife's niece, and he starts a plan to end his marriage and not be criticized by the old and classy Italian society. In the meantime, in order to complete his plan many things happened including funny moments and some dramatic moments. The movie seems to have been very well directed and very well acted and gives us a little hint about the behavior of the Sicilian society. In order to do his plan, Ferdinando chooses a crazy idea, and takes a long time to plan and detail his plan perfectly having a lot of funny interruptions during the process of his plan. Its refreshing to find movies with good sense of humor, and no use of vulgarities or bad language to make the viewers laugh. I really enjoyed it, and i deeply recommend watching it.

jzappa Divorce Italian Style is blessed with a wonderfully devious and elaborately orchestrated murder plot with an illicit advantage, organized by a man who secretly feels no pride towards his proud and scrupulous culture, which he takes full and calculated advantage of. I love it! Though I am well out of the long-lived phase wherein I was absolutely obsessed with movies about cons, heists, stings, double-crosses, and things of that sort, I am still taken by any movie with the razor sharp wit to effectively portray the sneakiest possible ruse with an advantage with no moral value but great fulfillment. I am a good person, and I do not like bad people, but I am most certainly attracted quite strongly to any display of what sneaky, manipulative people do.Divorce Italian Style lets the audience in on everything that our wicked protagonist plots. We observe, chuckling and engrossed, voyeurs with our tongues in our cheeks, as drama ensues and chaos ushers in and the only ones who have any idea are us, the observers with director Pietro Germi's effective god's eye view that he provides us with.The movie is also well worthwhile because of how lovingly and hysterically it portrays its culture. Italy is portrayed as a place where everyone is melodramatic, impetuous, outlandishly prideful, and bearing a temper the length of a millimeter. The hilarious observation of its own culture is the whole reason the scheme and the comic genius of it work so well.

Scarecrow-88 Marcello Mastroianni stars a Ferdinando Cefalú, a baron of a dishonored family who lustfully longs for his cousin, Angela(the luscious Stefania Sandrelli). He has a wife, Rosalia(Daniela Rocca) who longs for attention and probes constantly of whether he loves her not. She is such an annoyance, he begins a scheme to corrupt her finding an old love from the past, a painter restorer Carmelo(Leopoldo Trieste). Divorce in Italy is a no-no, but if a spouse is caught in the act of adultery, murder might be seen as merely a way of saving one's honor at such a disgraceful act. This is Ferdinando's desire..to match his wife and her former love together and, upon catching them embracing, murdering them so that he can rightfully pursue Angela. Hilarious consequences ensue.This film is quite a treat..it doesn't miss a note. There's a very funny plug for Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"(starring Mastroianni)towards the end of the film which is supposed to be a set-up for Ferdinando's catching them together at his home as he is away to the cinema. The ending has a great sense of irony as we see this man approaching 40 doing what he can to be with a 16 year old teen who is the daughter of his sister. That seems a bit taboo in itself, but the film is about exposing, and poking fun at, taboos.

Stefano Fiore Marcello Mastroianni is a great actor but who does he want to fool with those little mustaches playing the part of a Sicilian? He doesn't make sense. He isn't credible. With this premise the movie is all downhill. Mastroianni overacts making his part furthermore less credible. All the actors overact and the movie becomes a mess. Pietro Germi lost control. If everyone was a little more serious this could have a been a great comedy.The director will make a sort of masterpiece with SIGNORE & SIGNORI (Ladies & Gentlemen) but 4 years will have to pass.The DVD I saw had images of bad quality. Being an Italian movie unfortunately it often happens.