Divorce - Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)

An interesting little Italian comedy film about a Sicilian aristocrat named Ferdinando Cefalu, who dreams of getting rid of his wife so that he can marry his attractive, high school age cousin.  Of course, since divorce was illegal at the time, it won't be easy; his plan: to lure his wife into a tryst so that he can kill her in a seeming honor killing and get off comparatively lightly in court (the movie states that such a killing would merit 3-7 years in the Italian penal code).  It's quite funny, playing around quite a bit with the voice-over and using the expressively deadpan face of Marcello Mastroianni to great comedic effect; he has this little recurring tic throughout the movie that works as a punchline or climax to a number of the absurd situations.  There's also a rather surreal scene where all the men in town, Cefalu included, goes to see the supposedly scandalous Fellini film La Dolce Vita, which also starred Mastroianni; they never show his character from that movie, but still, it was a rather neat allusion; it's not really heavy-handed since it played off of the real-life controversy of Fellini's film, and it works as a neat little easter egg for cinema aficionados.  Overall, the film is quite entertaining; it's nothing deep, but as a comedy and an exaggerated documentation of old Sicilian society, it's successful.  I'd recommend it.