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Summary: swept away
Review: OH MY GOD,I LOVE THIS MOVIE.
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Summary: I'LL GET EVEN WITH YOU SOMEDAY BITCH!
Review: One of those artsy Italian trick-movies where-in the roles are suddenly reversed. He an itinerant Communist deck hand. Her a filthy wealthy selfish ruler of her own BITCHWORLD who loves to bark orders to the dedicated staff. A storm thrusts them together on a deserted Island where she learns a quick lesson in respect. Upon rescue, she maintains her undying love for him, as does his own land-bound girlfriend. He is confused, but rich bitch is not. She did what she had to do to survive. Her husband thanks him. Commies girlfriend not so empathetic. Even better in sub-titles!
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Summary: A Very Great Film
Review: Some of the previous reviews, and the cover of the video box at the top of the screen, for that matter, might suggest that this is a high-toned Italian skin flick. Far from it. It's a profound, sometimes brutal portrayal of what becomes of a man and a woman with radically different, antagonistic world views when they're stranded together on a desert island. If you've seen Seven Beauties, you know what Wertmuller's capable of (and if you haven't, you're in for a major treat with that one, too).
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Summary: Very Good
Review: TAMING OF THE SHREW set on a desert island, and very good with great acting. Didn't like the woman-hitting scenes, but over all a well done, intelligent film. Very very well written.
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Summary: Better than the new version with Madonna
Review: The new version with Madonna is very good, the production is better because was made 30 years later. But this original version is so much funny, the actors are amazing.
The story is about a woman who is having vacations with her husband and friends in her yacht and one day she and a sailor take a boat to go to a beach so she could swim. When she suggests this to the sailor he says that it was late and dangerous but she didn't care and as result they got lost and ended in a deserted island. So in the island the sailor who wasn't well treated in the yacht because of the master's wife, now decides that it's time to be the master so the rich woman has to do everthing that he wanted if she wanted to eat or be in the cottage that he found. As a result of all this they fall in love.
I'd really like to tell more beyond that point but you'll really have to see the movie.
This edition is in italian with subtitles in english, but it's better that the movie is in italian because the voices are really funny.
Between the original version and the new one there are some changes but not very big because basiclly the story is the same. But if you're choosing between one and the other, I'll strongly recommend this one, the first one. It's much more funnier.
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Summary: Definitive Wertmuller/Giannini
Review: The superficial story is entertaining enough, but the deeper studies of human behavior make this (and most of Wertmuller's films) worthy of repeated and in-depth study. The knock-down, drag-out fight in the middle of the movie (which, conveniently enough, is the big turning point) is so completely self-consciously hilarious that I was rolling in the aisles in fits of laughter. As the two soon-to-be lovers grapple with each other along the length and breadth of the island they are spewing out an incredibly sensitive combination of heartfelt emotion and mindless class rhetoric.Giancarlo Giannini is a fantastic actor possessed of one of cinema's all-time most expressive faces. Wertmuller knows how to exploit his talents to their fullest.
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Summary: <Sigh> Giancarlo Giannini
Review: This is one of my all-time favorites. Forget political correctness, and sit back and enjoy! Giancarlo Giannini is at his best in this one. And Mariangela Melato was brilliantly cast as his island-mate. What wonderful sparks fly between these two! The dialog is both funny and poignant. It's a smart, funny, and romantic movie. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: It's not politically correct
Review: This movie is great, especially because it's not politically correct. Delves into the male/female psyche in a way not allowed. It's raw in nerve and truth, and enjoyable as pure entertainment.
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Summary: Hey dudes... this is a good movie to watch with the babes!
Review: This movie rules, particularly in Italian with english sub-titles. In the screwed up nineties where men and woman assume a politically correct facade to the point where their souls are drenched in phony cliches, this movie puts it all in prospective. This is the way a man and woman should be... completely striped of everything except their sexual passion and uh... their communist rhetoric. The complete role reversal of thier class struggle puts a really great edge on this movie. There is also the added benefit of seeing Mariangela Melato scantly clad! Glancarlo Giannini plays the southern Italian working class communist to perfection. A really wonderful performance by all.
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Summary: double-plus-good
Review: To the review from San Diego: Do you always bring your personal agenda to the critique of everything you listen to and/or see? That sounds like a pretty unhappy life. Is it so strange to believe that a film can tell a powerful and compelling story without endorsing what it portrays? Swept Away is a film that is both beautiful and disgusting, but not once did I ever believe that it embraced male domination, female oppression, or any type of class ideology. It told a story that had political undertones, and it did a great job in doing so. I don't particularly care for capitalism, communism or patriarchy, but I'm not shallow or naive enought to bring my unrealistic visions of a nonexistent utopia into my critiques of art, film and literature.
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