Divorce Italian Style: Difference between revisions

Review aggregator website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported an approval rating of 100% based on 17 critic reviews and an audience score of 93% based on over 2,500 reviews. Upon release in the United States, [[Bosley Crowther]] of [[The New York Times]] called it: "one of the funniest pictures the Italians have sent along" and praised Germi as "a genius with the sly twist."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |date=September 18, 1962 |title=The Screen: 'Divorce--Italian Style'; 'Dandy Satiric Farce' at Paris Theater Marcello Mastroianni and Miss Rocca Star |language=en |pages=34 |work=The New York Times |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.comhttp//arch-timesmachine-fe-prd-40741-2-575473780.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/timesmachine/1962/09/18/90185037.html?pageNumber=34 |access-date=2023-06-30}}</ref> James Powers of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' praised the "mocking, sardonic farce" as "bold, irreverent, and human to the bone." Powers predicted it would be successful in America due to its "universaldual appeal"nature as wellboth asan itsarthouse "twofilm avenuesand ofa film that achieves general appeal."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Powers |first=James |date=October 2, 1962 |title=Italo Production Has General Appeal |pages=3 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/divorce- italian-slick-pic/docview/2339684721/se-2?accountid=12874}}</ref> In a time when many art house movies from Europe were viewed by the general American public as boring, Powers claimed that ''Divorce, Italian Style'' managed to be both artistic and achieve general appeal.<ref name=":0" /> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' gave the film a positive viewreview, calling itthe satire "a penetrating, almost brutal glimpse of Sicily and its antiquated way of life."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hawk |date=September 26, 1962 |title=Divorce--Italian Style |work=Variety}}</ref>