If you liked "Divorzio all'italiana" you will probably enjoy this comedy as well, but there are a few of us who rate this one higher than Pietro Germi's 1961 film: perhaps it is because this time Germi (and clever screenwriters Age & Scarpelli) painted a vivid fresco of a Sicilian town, and the fight for "honor" reaches a powerful combination of personal drama, lunacy and irony. With an outstanding performance by Saro Urzì as the seduced girl's father, the tale unfolds with impetus and involves girls in heat, selfish consorts, corrupt politicians, ruined aristocrats, and an entire moralistic town responsible for the tragicomedy. An outstanding comedy that tells many dramatic truths.
Review of Seduced and Abandoned
