Cinematheque: Italian Masterworks at the Chazen Museum of Art

(Italy | 1966 | 35mm | 115min | Subtitled; Director: Pietro Germi.) Germi’s fast-paced bedroom farce is his third, after Divorce, Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned. Set in the provincial northern town of Treviso, Germi dissects the hypocritical middle class (the “Ladies and Gentleman” of the Italian title) with subtle observations on marriage, chastity, the police, the court system, the church and family. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966.