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Lina Wertmuller's "Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August" resists the director's most determined attempts to make it a fable about the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, and persists in being about a man and a woman.
Class warfare hits the high seas in this Italian comedy about Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), a long-suffering crew member who works on a rich couple's yacht. The wife, Raffaela (Mariangela Melato...
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- Lina Wertmüller
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- Giancarlo Giannini
R, 1 hr 56 min. Imagine being shipwrecked on a beautiful island -- with someone you really can't stand. A young soldier (Adriano Giannini) is cast adrift on an island with his employer, a rich, self-centered woman who is used to having her own way.
Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (Italian: Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto), usually shortened to Swept Away, is a 1974 Italian romantic adventure comedy drama written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The film follows a wealthy woman ...
Oct 18, 2005 · A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but has to bear with her bad mood. One day she wakes up late in the afternoon and asks to be taken to land where everyone had...
- Lina Wertmuller
- Giancarlo Giannini
Sep 10, 2012 · Though seemingly a prettily made, pretty erotic exploitation movie, one suspects that there is value in Wertmüller's observation of the potency of sexual chauvinism.
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Aug 2, 2001 · Directed by Lina Wertmüller. With Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato. Italian with English subtitles. Raffaella, a rich, beautiful, and acid-tongued Milanese who has charted a yacht, and Gennarino, a swarthy Sicilian deckhand of the working class, are marooned on an isolated island in the Mediterranean.
