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Viewed decades after its original release, Divorce Italian Style remains as fresh and funny and pointed as it did when it was released to acclaim and awards and brisk business in 1961-1962. Credit must go to director and co-writer Pietro Germi, whose previous films set in Sicily had largely been social realist dramas, and star Marcello Mastroianni, coming off his big breakthrough, La Dolce Vita (whose theatrical opening in the film's Sicilian village is one of Divorce's many great set pieces). One...

In flashback, Marcello Mastroianni recalls his wartime romance with Sophia Loren. He is so enamored with her that he finances her escape from the bordello where she lives and sets her up with a good job in the restaurant that he owns, and later finds a place for her on his mother's domestic staff. He is not, however, enamored enough to make their union legal, and expects Loren to behave like a servant by day and his mistress by night. Years later, Loren lies on her deathbed. The contrite Mastroianni...