Slideshow
Lina Wertmüller's
SWEPT AWAY…
BY AN UNUSUAL DESTINY IN THE BLUE SEA OF AUGUST
Friday, January 31 – Thursday, February 6
NEW 4K RESTORATION
Italy, 1974
Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
In Italian with English subtitles
Approx. 115. min. DCP.
“Raffaella (Mariangela Melato), the rich, beautiful, acid-tongued Milanese who has chartered [a] yacht, and Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), the Sicilian deckhand, are marooned for several weeks on the only Mediterranean island not yet occupied by German tourists. They are Popeye and Olive Oyl locked in passionate combat. He is a Communist with the dedication of a first-century Christian. She is a capitalist… More important, he is a man and she is a woman, for which there is hell to pay on both sides… Giannini and Melato are the best things to happen to Italian comedy since Mastrioanni and Loren squared off in the 1960s.” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times
Restored in 2024 by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Minerva Pictures and Mediaset, carried out by L’Immagine Ritrovata.
A KINO LORBER RELEASE
Reviews
“As ferocious as it is funny”
– Judith Crist
“A parable in which people’s sexual attitudes are governed by economics and class.”
– New York Women in Film and Television