Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
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Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller OMRI (14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021), known as Lina Wertmüller (Italian: [ˈliːna vertˈmyller]), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away.
Lina Wertmüller. Writer: Seven Beauties. During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films.
Dec 9, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller, who combined sexual warfare and leftist politics in the provocative, genre-defying films “The Seduction of Mimi,” “Swept Away” and “Seven Beauties,” which established her as one...
Dec 9, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller, a central figure of Italian cinema and the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award in the best director category, died this week, Italy’s Ministry of Culture confirmed....
Dec 10, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller was a thorn in the side of the art house establishment, a riposte to the stateliness of modernism, a woman unafraid of men and their violence and dominance. She lived to confuse people, to make them uncomfortable, to do things her way.
Dec 9, 2021 · Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmüller was the first woman ever nominated for an Oscar in directing. The films she made were extravagant and eye-popping, and she used to say she wasn't surprised to...
Dec 9, 2021 · Italian film director Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever to be nominated for an Oscar for best director, has died at the age of 93. Wertmüller passed away at her home in Rome on Thursday...
Dec 9, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller made Academy Awards history when she became the first female director nominee for the film “Seven Beauties,” died Thursday in Rome.
Dec 9, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to score a best director nomination at the Academy Awards, died on Thursday in Italy. She was 93. Wertmüller’s death was reported in the Italian press....
Dec 9, 2021 · Lina Wertmüller, a visionary Italian filmmaker who made history as the first woman to be nominated for a best-director Oscar, has died, the Italian Culture Ministry and La Repubblica reported...
