Swept Away
International Arthouse
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1h 54m
Leaving October 1
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 Taming of the Shrew."
Selected by Emerson Rosenthal.
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