Lafayette College Library

Irene was not prepared for the charm and tongue-in-cheek humor of this vintage film, starring a dressed down Marcello Mastroianni as a married man who wants to wed his much younger cousin and so hatches an elaborate scheme to kill his wife. Fans of Italian cinema should find the film-within-a-film sequence particularly amusing. The severe beauty of the Sicilian landscape is as integral to the plot as are the hapless lovers, and is shown to best advantage in this sparkling Criterion Collection edition.

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