Movies
November, 1967
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians is another savagely comic essay from director Pietro Germi, whose jibes at the mating habits of his countrymen (Divorce--Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned) are one part hilarity, one part horror. Here, Germi zeroes in on a slew of adulterers in the town of Treviso, carefully separating those whose transgressions society will not tolerate from those whose hanky-panky is protected by law, church, Mother and a Mafia of bourgeois wives. A tandem tale of tru...
