Swept Away 4K 1974 Ultra HD 2160p

The rich bitch Marinangela Melato and sailor Giancarlo Giannini were taken by an unusual fate to the azure Mediterranean Sea in August. She thought to go swimming on a motorboat, and the motor stalled, and they found themselves far away from the luxury yacht and from the shore. After two days of dangling in the waves, they were nailed to an uninhabited island, where Giancarlo got even for all the offenses and humiliation. The southerner showed the “industrial Milanese whore” what it means to be a man and a gentleman with a very simple technique of slaps, slaps and kicks. The apparently not very happy woman, finding herself in an environment unfamiliar to her, where every day she had to take care of sustenance, fell in love with the handsome man like a cat, and kissed the feet kicking her, recognizing a real, deep feeling. He, too, fell in love with her, and such an idyll lasted until he decided, though she was against it, to test the solidity of her love by giving a smoke signal to a yacht passing in the distance. But the rich girl's love did not stand the test of comfort, as one might expect. A wonderful, quite original and very silly movie.

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I hope no one will think that I am mocking the titles of Lina Wertmüller's movies. On the contrary, I like them very much, although I can't remember some of them completely the first time I see them. This is not my favorite of her films, she has much stronger and even more important ones. But I really enjoyed it too. Again Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato, who have recently become my favorite screen couple. I can endlessly look at Giannini, who, as one song says, has the sea in his eyes, and I can endlessly listen to Melato's unceasing chatter, with her expressive and unique manner, both funny and sad.

In this story, laughter and rage were transferred to a truly paradisiacal place: endless blue sea, bright sun, rocks, islands, yacht. It's beautiful. And no problems. And as it is supposed to be, all this is available, of course, to the rich. Refined spoiled lady, with aristocratic double surname Pavone-Lancetti, does not tire of talking nonsense, constantly annoying and provoking everyone to discuss topics in which she herself is not very well versed. And she is truly despised by the servant-matron, with a typical southern proletarian name of Gennarino, a member of the Communist Party, an ardent hater of industrialists-exploiters and the entire bourgeoisie with its vices, fictitious and not. In a word: if he could, he would have burned them all.

But the author, who is the master of destinies, throws the two heroes to the place where all the frameworks, foundations, problems and other hardships of everyday existence of human beings, regardless of their social inequality, cease to exist. On a deserted island, which in the concept of a Mediterranean full of tourists and fishermen is funny. But this is intentional, where else could the director “close” our heroes to show us how comical the beliefs of both of them are, how stupid and meaningless they are. Because it's something else entirely that has the power. So where else would Gennarino have been able to get even with an entire class of expulators for the gasoline price hike, the salary supplement fund, and the social security surcharge? And Raffaella, would she ever recognize her first and only real man?

But the author-powerless, powerless quite logically and deliberately-allows this story to resolve itself as it expected. Where all those frameworks, foundations, problems and other burdens of the everyday existence of human beings are. How could it be otherwise?

I like it. A story about a fishing boat “Santa Rosalia” not used for a noble voyage, about someone in industrial Milan who will remember someone's hot hands and probably wither from boredom, about a whore “from the top”, a little about another whore “from the bottom”, about classism and parallel worlds that play other roles in ordinary life, about politics, about islands and yachts, about a traitor at sea, and probably about love.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (85.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#Italian: FLAC 2.0
#Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

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