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...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...
Climax has stopped being funny now, as Sergio literally begins to die of loving. Unfortunately, Producer-Writer-Director Pietro Germi almost spoils his curiously bittersweet comedy about the trials of trigamy with a mawkish funeral finale in which Sergio's voice provides a disembodied commentary. But not even this last false touch dims the luster of Actor Tognazzi's exquisitely humane performance as a man who loves not wisely but too well...
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...
...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...