Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s
Divorce Italian Style
Scored from 49 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In the fictional Sicilian town of Agramonte, Baron Ferdinando 'Fefe' Cefalu (Marcello Mastroianni) is suffocating in his marriage to his doting, faintly moustached wife Rosalia (Daniela Rocca) while fixated on his sixteen-year-old cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli). Divorce being illegal in Italy, Fefe studies Article 587 of the penal code, the honour-killing provision that cut a sentence to three to seven years for a man who killed a wife caught in an affair. His scheme is therefore to steer Rosalia into another man's arms conspicuously enough to justify shooting her. Pietro Germi's black-and-white satire, narrated by Fefe's own daydreaming voice, won the Academy Award for best original screenplay.
Divorce Italian Style is a 1961 comedy, drama and romance film. It plays in Italian. It runs 1h 44m. Its country of origin is listed as Italy.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 207 of whom clear the calibration test. Only 49 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 50 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 1,928 other films from the 1960s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Divorce Italian Style lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 49.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
