PARADISE presents DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE

“My marriage to him was as willful an act as I have ever committed; I married him against all the evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”

-Nora Ephron, Heartburn

THIS JUNE: We’re starting the summer with an equal dose of heartache and hilarity as we celebrate the cynicism at the heart of all romance. Join us as we laugh our way through love lost with seven rom-coms in reverse! The Paradise Presents: BREAKING UP… (is hard to do).

HE ORDERED MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS WITH A TWIST ... ITALIAN STYLE! Our next stop is a foray into the realm of black comedy- courtesy of the Europeans. Marcello Mastroianni stars as an impoverished Sicilian nobleman trapped in a loveless marriage. After falling for his young cousin, he hatches a plot to off his wife in a "crime of passion" in Pietro Germi's cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture. The Paradise Presents DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE.

Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela (Stefania Sandrelli), but he is married to Rosalia (Daniela Rocca) and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

(Courtesy of Janus Films)

Sunday June 9th, 3 PM/2:30 PM Doors
General Admission $12.50 | Student/Senior (with valid ID) $10.00 + HST/eventbrite fees

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