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...movie, which is divertingly diabolical, is the work of Pietro Germi, who once again (as in Divorce, Italian Style) makes social slapstick out of Italian law. Hoffman appears as a shy bank clerk whose beautiful wife (Stefania Sandrelli) floods him with killing affection. She is an embarrassment at the table, where she delights in sucking fish heads, and in bed, where she screams like an air-raid siren during orgasm. Months of this kind of married life, plus a hysterical pregnancy and intrusive in-laws, are enough to drive Hoffman into the arms of another woman (Carla Gravina). Hoffman...
...Germi indicts not only monolithic Italian marriage laws-most of the movie consists of flashbacks to the period be fore divorce became legal in Italy-but also marriage itself. The trouble with it, according to Germi, is mostly women. That is the trouble with the movie, too, in a way. It is constructed around a sour, myopic kind of misogyny, not quite deft or witty enough to cut through the un pleasant taste of bile...
...CLIMAX. The trials of trigamy, as related by Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce, Italian Style), with Ugo To-gnazzi in the role of a man lost in the bittersweet labors of love...
...CLIMAX. Ugo Tognazzi gives an exquisitely humane performance as a three-family man (one wife, two mistresses, six children) in a bittersweet comedy produced, written and directed by Italy's Pietro Germi...
...BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS. Adultery-Italian style, by Divorce-Italian Style Director Pietro Germi. Virna Lisi supplies the sugar and spice. Really quite nice...