SWEPT AWAY - LINA WERTMULLER

Directed by Lina Wertmüller
Italy, 1974, 1h 54min, DCP, In Italian with English subtitles

“The lightest, most successful fusion of Miss Wertmüller’s two favorite themes, sex and politics.”
—The New York Times

The simplest plot imaginable — “callous rich woman is shipwrecked on an island with a man who is a firebrand communist” — takes on multiple layers of sexual and political meaning in Lina Wertmüller’s controversial and sensational social fable, now newly restored. With Wertmüller’s muse Giancarlo Giannini (naturally) and the wonderful Mariangela Melato.

• write up by Austin Film Society

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Discussion venue AFTER the screening Yellow Ranger

Meetup Structure
1: Meet at the lobby of the theater with other members prior to the screening. (Look for movie poster, Deserto Rosso: poster image link )

2: If you missed or arrived late then meet the Event Host who will wait for all the participants to converge in the lobby after the screening at the same spot.

3: The group will proceed to the designated hangout space for the discussion.