Word: germi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adultery-Italian style, by Divorce-Italian Style Director Pietro Germi. Virna Lisi is one of the Italians...
...BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style) conducts a boisterous travelogue through the bedrooms of a small Italian city, and finds Virna Lisi in one of them...
...Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Pietro Germi's boisterous travelogue through the bedrooms of a small Italian city was originally called simply Signore e Signori; its hoked-up English title is about its only flaw...
...appeal of Germi's storytelling, as in his earlier Divorce-Italian Style, comes about largely through his impeccable feeling for pace. Birds spins out its simple material for nearly two hours, but every breath and heartbeat seems to occupy exactly the right amount of time. And Virna Lisi, whose surface adornments Hollywood's cameras have already thoroughly explored, emerges under Germi's unhurried guidance as an actress of depth as well...
...first-prize choice -Un Homme et Une Femme, a love story with a car-racing background (TIME, May 20.) What disturbed the critics was that the judges decided to split the top award with another film, Signore e Signori, yet another view of middle-class Italian mores by Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style); nor did many viewers agree with the selection of the British Alfie, starring Michael Caine, for the judges' "Special Prize...