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In the 1960s a law introducing divorce in Italy was strongly opposed by the Church and Italians were divided between "favorevoli" (in favour of divorce) and "contrari" (opposers). In this "Scusi lei e' favorevole o contrario?" Alberto Sordi plays his usual role of the little italian rascal: he makes business with the clergy, proclaims himself a 100% Roman Catholic and a strong opposer of divorce, but has a really peculiar private life, living separated from his wife (Giulietta Masina) and playing the whole week with six girl-friends, one for day; and only on Sunday he finally takes a rest...

It's really difficult to call this a masterpiece; Sordi is good as usual, but nothing different from usual; and 35 years after, almost everything seems dated in this movie.

An old prince (Eduardo De Filippo) lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors; he proudly rejects a huge offer for the palace by a real estate group seeking a place to build a department store; but the prince suddenly dies (and joins the ghosts!) and his nephew (Marcello Mastroianni), just back from the States, sells the palace for a much lesser price. The old palace seems lost but here come the ghosts which manage to create a Caravaggio-like painting in the palace, which is so declared national monument and saved from destruction. A little satirical masterpiece about real estate speculation in 1950s Italy. And a great cast with the best Italian actors of the time: Eduardo, Buazzelli, Gassman and Mastroianni playing three characters.