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...Agnese, a raven-haired sylph with the face of a Botticelli angel. Head high, eyes cast demurely downward, she moves with easy grace through the cobblestone streets of the small Sicilian village while the camera follows, falling slowly in love with her. So does the audience. Thus Director Pietro Germi eases smoothly into a black and bitter tragicomedy that shows his worldly, wildly wicked Divorce-Italian Style to be an exercise in restraint. In Seduced and Abandoned, by contrast, Germi's underlying despair keeps burning to the surface. "This time," he explains, "I would like the public to hate...
...wild. Instead of good guys and bad guys, there are carabinieri and mafiosi. Instead of Hollywood moviemakers there are Italian moviemakers who scuttle about the landscape manufacturing folklore. Most of them produce ludicrously crude goat operas, but once in a while somebody really gets Sicily on acetate. Pietro Germi did it once (Divorce-Italian Style); Luchino Visconti did it twice (La Terra Trema, The Leopard); and now Alberto Lattuada serves up ten or a dozen small but gloriously garlicky slices of Sicilian village life...
...Best Director: Frank Perry for David and Lisa, Pietro Germi for Divorce -Italian Style, David Lean for Lawrence of Arabia (he won an Oscar for directing The Bridge on the River Kwai), Arthur Penn for The Miracle Worker, and Robert Mulligan for To Kill a Mockingbird...
Divorce-Italian Style. Director Pietro Germi and Actor Marcello Mastroianni, in the year's most hilarious comedy of bad manners, slyly rattle one of the mustier skeletons in their country's closet-the antiquated Italian divorce...
...newsman-hero of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and the writer-hero of Luchino Visconti's La Notte. He has proved himself a masterful comedian with his current performance in Pietro Germi's Divorce-Italian Style. With credits like that, he understandably has no interest whatever in learning English. Hollywood has tried repeatedly to lure him, but young men seldom go for old tarts. "What is being done here in Italy," he says, "is far better and much more mature and advanced than anything cinematic being done elsewhere...