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Swept Away
Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto
1974 · Film · 110 min
Directed by Lina Wertmüller
A wealthy woman's yachting holiday with friends in the Mediterranean Sea takes an unexpected turn when she and one of the boat's crew are stranded on a desert island. Her capitalist beliefs and his communist convictions clash, but during their struggle to survive, social roles are reversed and heated passions come alive.
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Ahh, time for a rambling ode to cinema of the days past and the Italian Cinema course I audited at Purdue from the incomparable Ben Lawton: Although I have admired Antonioni's great shots (l'Avventura is picture perfect, that final shot! And this one: https://kinorotterdam.nl/content/uploads/2022/04/Lavventura-10.png) and the head games of Bergman (I find The Silence to be the least suffocating among his films although I also like Fanny and Alexander, too) I've always been a Fellini person, since the day I watched La Dolce Vita. He can be over the top (e.g. Amarcord and Roma) but to this day I cannot watch the last sequence of Otto e mezzo without tearing up. Lawton also introduced me to Lana Wertmüller, who does not seem to be as well known as she deserves. If you have the chance, watch her controversial Swept Away.
My wife and I both love cinema, so we tried to get our son interested in it, to little effect ... until he started watching Criterion on his own. He started to watch Kurosawa's movies because they were "samurai movies" but got hooked! We're now having discussions about his characterizations in The Hidden Castle and other movies.
If you can spare some time I very strongly suggest to subscribe to Criterion streaming, at least for a few months ($10/mo in the US) to discover the old gems.
The clip is from a longer 4 minute scene with no dialog set to the prelude to Verdi's La Traviata (had to look it up...). All body language. The full movie is on YouTube and the extended scene starts at 34:20:
https://youtu.be/Xo9uf8Q8Pc4?t=2060
(You could argue the scene starts even earlier, at 23 minutes in.)
I've seen three of Wertmüller's films. Mimi, Swept Away, and Seven Beauties. Of those, I enjoyed Mimi the most, but they were all worth seeing.
Wonderful, thanks for that. Wertmüller's “Swept Away” (also starring Giannini and Melato) is one of my favorite films. Wonder how much hand dialog I’ve been missing!
>Did he specify which films were added in the second revision?
Lee revamped the list to include eight movies by five female directors, bringing the total to 95.
The Piano– Jane Campion (1993)
Daughters of the Dust– Julie Dash (1991)
The Hurt Locker– Kathryn Bigelow (2008)
Sugar Cane Alley – Euzhan Palcy (1983)
The Seduction of Mimi– Lina Wertmuller (1972)
Love and Anarchy – Lina Wertmuller (1973)
Swept Away – Lina Wertmuller (1974)
Seven Beauties – Lina Wertmuller (1975)
http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/spike-lees-list-of-95-essential-movies.html