The Seduction of Mimi
At Home With...
•
1h 52m
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 108 mins | 1972
The kind of potent cocktail of sex and politics only Wertmüller can concoct, The Seduction of Mimi stars Giancarlo Giannini as a laborer being wooed by both the unions and the mafioso while he runs back-and-forth between his hot-to-trot mistress and his (seemingly) ice-cold wife.
Up Next in At Home With...
-
Rocco and His Brothers
Directed by Luchino Visconti | 179 mins | 1960
Set in Visconti’s ancestral home of Milan, his epic devotional tragedy centers on a clan who emigrate north in search of better prospects, only to see their close-knit family unit torn apart when brother Rocco (Alain Delon), rising in the ranks as a ... -
In The Mirror of Maya Deren
Directed by Martina Kudlacek | 103 mins | 2001
Using footage from Deren’s groundbreaking experimental films of the 1940s—among them Meshes of the Afternoon and At Land—and interviews with Deren’s contemporaries, Kudlacek’s film provides penetrating insights into the mind of its legendary subject ... -
Swept Away
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 114 mins | 1974
A battle royale of the sexes/classes begins when vacationing socialite Mariangela Melatoand her Communist servant Giancarlo Giannini find themselves stranded alone together on a Mediterranean island in Wertmüller’s kinky, anarchic reworking of "The Ta...
