VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Platicsco
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
VaykokTimur
Awesome movie. Actors play perfectly, and the songs are just super.
I was looking for original lyrics "L'onuri Di L'ascaluni - Sedotta e Abbandonata", but, unfortunately, I did not find them.
Who can put them in the review?
petra_ste
The title quote is uttered by an hilariously sarcastic police officer as he gazes at a map of Italy and covers Sicily with a hand.The whole movie, another comedic masterpiece by Pietro Germi after Divorzio all'Italiana, is not so much bittersweet as dripping acid: a ferocious satire if ever there was one, tearing apart a traditional, phoney notion of honor.A small Sicilian town: young Agnese is pregnant, and her father, "uomo d'onore" Vincenzo Ascalone, craves revenge against her seducer (the boyfriend of Agnese' sister), with a devastating domino effect involving Agnese's idiot brother, a lawyer cousin, a disgraced baron and many others.Memorable characters, mercilessly funny writing and perfect casting from the leads (Stefania Sandrelli as Agnese and Saro Urzì in a tour-de-force performance as her father) to the smallest roles make this movie a true gem.9/10
Claudio Carvalho
In Sicily, the fifteen year-old Agnese Ascalone (Stefania Sandrelli) is seduced by the youngster Peppino Califano (Aldo Puglisi), who is the fiancé of her older sister Matilde (Paola Biggio). When her father, Don Vincenzo Ascalone (Saro Urzì), discovers that Agnese is not pure anymore and is pregnant of Peppino, he visits his parents to arrange the marriage between Peppino and Agnese. Further, he makes arrangement with the decadent Baron Rizieri Zappalà (Leopoldo Trieste) to be Matilde's new fiancé. But Peppino refuses to marry Agnese and flees to a hideout in a convent. Don Ascalone seeks out his cousin that is a lawyer and they plot a scheme to kill Peppino. Don Ascalone sends his stupid son Antonio Ascalone (Lando Buzzanca) to gun down Peppino, but Agnese leaves home and tells the Police Chief Polenza (Oreste Palella) that Peppino will be murdered because she had been seduced by him. Now Peppino must marry Agnese otherwise he will go to prison. But Agnese does not want to marry him anymore."Sedotta e Abbandonata", a.k.a. "Seduced and Abandoned", is a tragicomic comedy about honor and family in Sicily. The Sicilians probably do not like this bitter movie since the story shows a hypocrite and retrograde society in the 60's, with gossipers and people interested in keep up appearances despite the feelings of the next of kin. Unfortunately the conclusion is quite disappointing. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Seduzida & Abandonada" ("Seduced and Abandoned")
M. J Arocena
The Italians are masters at laughing at themselves. I wonder if Iraq had developed that kind of self parody the world wouldn't have turned a much different place. I mention Iraq because, based on the tale told in "Seduced and Abandoned", the only difference between Sicily and Iraq is the name of their God. The great Pietro Germi designs a grotesquely comic masterpiece of such ferocity that the line between comedy and tragedy is indeed very thin. As is typical in a Germi film, the cast is uniformly sensational. Here, besides a very young and extraordinary Stefania Sandrelli, there is a superlative performance by Saro Urzi, the head of the family threatened by a devastating scandal. Ignorance and hypocrisy dissected with a refined, elegant hand. Observed with the acute, unsentimental eye of an outsider and yet, Pietro Germi, was an Italian who looked with affectionate horror at the cultural ties that kept his Country trailing behind the rest of the western world. Not to be missed.
