SWEPT AWAY (1974)
Special Features: New 4K Restoration
[TRAVOLTI DA UN INSOLITO DESTINO NELL'AZZURRO MARE D'AGOSTO]
This politically provocative romantic farce from Lina Wertmüller — the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar® for Best Director, in 1977 for SEVEN BEAUTIES — pits arrogant, unapologetically capitalist yacht owner Raffaella (Mariangela Melato) against dedicated communist and silently resentful deckhand Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini) in a battle of wills. When they become lost at sea and marooned on a desert island, their survival comes to depend on adopting contradictory political positions from those they had espoused in civilization, with a primal, decidedly unenlightened take on gender roles predominating. Two different worlds of inequality — who is to say which one is worse? New York Times critic Vincent Canby described the film as, “the most successful fusion of Miss Wertmüller's two favorite themes, sex and politics, which are here so thoroughly and so successfully tangled that they become a single subject, like two people in love." DIR/SCR Lina Wertmüller; PROD Romano Cardarelli. Italy, 1974, color, 115 min. In Italian with English subtitles. RATED R
Restored in 2024 by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Minerva Pictures and Mediaset, carried out by L’Immagine Ritrovata.
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Genre: Adventure, drama
