Class warfare erupts against the beautiful backdrop of the Mediterranean Sea in Lina Wertmüller’s highly-acclaimed Swept Away. When a privileged socialite (Mariangela Melato) and a communist sailor (Giancarlo Giannini) are shipwrecked on a deserted island, roles reverse and power shifts.
“I’ve been trying to screen Lina Wertmüller films since I took over [programming]. She was THE ART HOUSE HERO back in 1978 when I first started going to foreign and art films. And she was constantly on every revival calendar in town back then.” – Quentin Tarantino
“4 Stars. Swept Away is an absorbing movie” – Roger Ebert
“[Swept Away] is by far the lightest, most successful fusion of Miss Wertmüller’s two favorite themes, sex and politics, which are here so thoroughly and so successfully tangled that they become a single subject, like two people in love.” – Vincent Canby, New York Times
