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Swept Away

film by Wertmüller [1974]

Also known as: “Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto”

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…destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (1974; Swept Away), a witty comedy in which a poor sailor establishes his dominance over a haughty rich woman while they are marooned on a deserted island, and Pasqualino settebellezze (1975; Seven Beauties), a film about an Italian dandy who must betray all moral values while…
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