Swept Away

Giancarlo Giannini stars in three other films Wertmuller made during this period, "Love and Anarchy", "The Seduction of Mimi" and "Swept Away ". As in the latter film, Giannini here plays a character who is dominated by a woman. The film was...

In this article: Seven Beauties, Giancarlo Giannini, Lina Wertmuller, Shirley Stoler, Academy Awards, Italian Army, Karl Otto Koch, Nezami, Ilse Koch, and Fernando Rey

...Island, an American TV sitcom which aired on CBS from 1964 to 1967 Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto), a 1974 Italian film written and directed by Lina...

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...whimsically prolix movie titles (which may be due to her long full name), for instance, the literal translation of the Italian title of Swept Away is "Swept away by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August". These titles were invariably...

In this article: Lina Wertmuller, Academy Award, Giancarlo Giannini, Federico Fellini, Seven Beauties, Trademark, 8½, Jane Campion, and Sofia Coppola

Swept Away (full English title: Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, full Italian title: Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto) is a 1974 Italian film written and directed by Lina Wertmuller. It...

In this article: Lina Wertmuller, Jump Cut, The Village Voice, James Berardinelli, Mariangela Melato, Giancarlo Giannini, and Roger Ebert

...(Paltrow) is not the most obvious sell, particularly when Gray reveals the film's inspirations include Lina Wertmuller's 1974 film Swept Away and an off-kilter, slightly insane lonely character from Dostoyevsky's novella White...

In this article: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, The Visitor, Two Lovers, Patrick Corporation, Malaise, and Sundance Film Festival

...work I would say is the opposite, it's charged with words, her titles being an example. " "Swept Away," for instance, is officially titled "Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny on the Blue Sea of August. " "But she ends up in the same...

In this article: Lina Wertmuller, Expired, Fred Roos, Jason Patric, Samantha Morton, Samuel Beckett, Andy Summers, and Teri Garr