Word: lisi
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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...
Another (Gastone Moschin) walks out on his nattering wife to find comfort as generously dispensed by a cafe hostess (Virna Lisi). His friends envy his conquest and join forces with the wife to hound him back to domesticity. Yet, an intruding enemy can unite all men in common cause. When a teen age peasant girl (Patrizia Valturri) is entertained by the husbands in an afternoon of collective amiability, and later hauls them before a judge, they take up a collection to buy her off and rescue the community's honor...
...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...
MADE IN ITALY. Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak are among the stars of this mosaic of modern Italy that blends humor, irony and pathos...