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Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Swept Away |
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The characteristically long full name of Lina Wertmueller's 1975 movie is "Swept away ... by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August." It's essentially a two-person film about a pair of titanic personalities acted with gusto by Giannini and Melato. She's a rich capitalist bitch and he's a sailor on her yacht with Communist sympathies. When the two are marooned on a small and isolated Mediterranean island, they must come to grips with each other -- class, gender and sexual issues get hashed out in lively manner. Some viewers charge this film written and directed by a woman is chauvinistically anti-feminist, but it's best to view it as a doomed love story between two fiery individuals.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Swept Away |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- seduction (yum!)
How much story is philosophy rather than plot?
- 2 (a little)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Italian
Setting
Europe
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- pleasure/love boat
Island?
Yes
Island:
- stranded
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Italian
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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