Divorce, Italian Style

Divorce, Italian Style (1961) starring Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli. Italian comedy about a man (Mastroianni) who, weary of his clinging wife (Rocca), plots to catch her in an infidelity so that he can kill her "to protect his honor." He's in love with his lovely niece (Sandrelli), and somewhat surprisingly, she's in love with him. The only way for them to be together is to get his wife out of the way, and since Italy is a Catholic country, divorce is not allowed under any conditions. This is a clever film, full of in-jokes and irony, and ends with a wicked twist. (In Italian, with English subtitles.) Grade: A-