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Swept Away

Swept Away

1974
Romance, Comedy
1h 54m
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 gone earlier. Gennarino sets up a boat but during the trip, the boat breaks down. They spend the night in the middle of the sea. (imdb)
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Swept Away

1974
Romance, Comedy
1h 54m
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Rated 26 Sep 2016
10
96th
I'm not convinced by the accusation that SWEPT AWAY is "deeply misogynistic." This is because the accusation normally paints the story as some kind of male wish-fulfillment fantasy. I disagree. Rather, it's a tale of the social realities of its time; a tale of The North vs.The South, a tale of a rich blonde woman from Milan and a poor brunette man from Sicily. The sexual politics emerge as a result of the power dynamics on the island, not because Wertmüller is secretly "one of the boys."
Rated 06 Dec 2006
100
99th
I watched this again. It's an absolute masterpiece. Roughly speaking, I spent the first act laughing, the second in a state of shock and the third act crying my eyes out.
Rated 26 Aug 2016
80
89th
It's not an allegory of anything more than what is said directly by the characters: they can love each other in a "good savage" environment, with all the good and all the bad of being a savage, whereas in the civilized world the ideologies, the superstructure win on their true nature and (occasionally twisted) desires. The film deliberately use a lot of clichés, yes, to destroy them, and leave only the humanity. But it's first of all a beautiful and unlikely love story with a tearjerker ending.
Rated 06 Apr 2014
80
91st
Great film that presents a materialist perspective on human relations, and possesses an underlying sense of pathos.
Rated 08 Oct 2013
60
21st
I can't tell if this film is allegorical or just outrageously misogynistic but either way it has not aged particularly well.
Rated 20 Mar 2011
2
21st
Tries really hard and thinks that it is really profound but it was mainly just laughable and pretty unbelievable at times. The story is a giant cliche and a lot of the time the characters just walk around talking to themselves which is not only really annoying but lazy writing and an easy way to tell the audience what the character is going through rather than showing us. Wanted to like it but besides Mariangela Melato's tits, it's simply not anything special.
Rated 14 Dec 2010
20
20th
It seemed like it was meant to be a commentary showing that communism and capitalism are both good and bad in their own ways, but they never really landed a punch in favor of communism. It felt like it thought it was amazingly deep but it was rather shallow and simple.
Rated 12 May 2016
90
85th
(...) Wir erleben die Untiefen einer sadomasochistischen Beziehung mit viel Gewalt. Je mehr sie sich unterwirft, desto mehr Lust verspürt sie, ja sie fühlt das Pathos der Liebe. Doch wir haben es mit einem gegensätzlichen Paar zu tun. Nun müssen sie sich entscheiden: Bleiben sie abgeschieden auf der Insel oder kehren sie in die Zivilisation zurück?(...)
Rated 24 Apr 2008
65
58th
Interesting, but not great.
Rated 26 Oct 2017
91
93rd
A journey of a film that uses its two perfectly acted and written characters to tell this original and powerful tale of passion. I loved hating Raffaella at first, then I loved hating Gennarino, but how their relationship evolves to where it lands is what's so masterful about this film -- it deals with an intensely human notion that can't be so easily articulated, but the film manages to do an awesomely illuminating job at it anyway.
Rated 20 Apr 2018
90
80th
Viewed April 19, 2018.
Rated 18 Jun 2019
90
87th
Lina Wertmüller's ferocious political satire is more than a little difficult for modern audiences to consume. I think the film is largely about how power relations warp social relations, and when the normal financial power relations are rendered completely irrelevant. He becomes the dominant one, and Melato's willing submission to him to the point of loving her own humiliation mirrors how we are normally supposed to feel about our social betters.
Rated 24 Feb 2020
50
18th
One of the most antifeminist things I've ever seen. A piece of shit man psychologically and physically breaks down a woman on a desert island and then cries when the Stockholm syndrome fades on returning to civilization. Yes, I understand it was supposed to be about class and race. But it ended up being more about sex and it's sad if the filmmaker could not see that.
Rated 27 Feb 2020
83
86th
Quite a journey!
Rated 07 Mar 2020
80
74th
The development of love between the two isn't completely persuasive for me and I thus find it melodramatic at the end, but I loved the cinematography and appreciate the social criticism.
Rated 28 Dec 2020
66
87th
The class struggle always continues (and intensifies) within the revolution, and, as Mao sez, petty production continuously reproduces bourgeois lines within the Party itself. It would perhaps take someone of the analytical caliber of a Fanon to be adequate to the content of this immensely politically sophisticated film. I think of Fassbinder for example as an extremely politically intelligent (and Brechtian) filmmaker, but even he's probably way overshadowed in that regard by Wertmüller.

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