Love & Anarchy
Lina Wertmüller & Her Beauties
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2h 5m
Leaving October 1
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 120 mins | 1973
Country bumpkin anarchist Giancarlo Giannini arrives in Rome on a mission to assassinate Mussolini with the assistance of partisan prostitute Mariangela Melato in Wertmüller’s 1930s-set tragicomedy—but his resolve falters when he falls for Tripolina (Lina Polito), one of the ladies at the brothel where they’re plotting the putsch.
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Swept Away
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 r... -
All Screwed Up
Leaving October 1
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 105 mins | 1974
Wertmüller’s wild, woolly working-class satire of the fantasy of upward mobility focuses on a cadre of Sicilian migrants living in a Milan commune as they struggle to make ends meet as kitchen employees while simultaneously avoiding... -
Seven Beauties
Leaving October 1
Directed by Lina Wertmüller | 116 mins | 1975
The comedy of errors begins when Neapolitan hustler Giancarlo Giannini inadvertently murders the lover of one of his septet of homely sisters. Worse luck follows, and Giannini lands in a concentration camp where, in order to survive...