Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passes are 2,000-ft.-high barren outcrops of granite and sandstone, sparsely dotted with desert scrub. Beyond is the vast loneliness of the desert. The only evidence of man is a narrow, two-lane asphalt road that slithers along for 20 miles through the minefields and war wreckage surrounding the passes, and the bristling patch of antennas that mark the sophisticated, underground listening post at Umm Khisheib, northwest of Giddi. Except for Egyptian, Israeli and U.N. soldiers, the only people the Americans are likely to see are camel-riding Bedouins eerily wandering through the emptiness with no apparent destination...
...soldiers call "Bedouinism." Dr. Amnon Shapira, a Tel Aviv physician who has served in the Sinai, describes the malaise as a pathological lethargy. "You lose all interest in everything. You don't wash, you have no energy or motivation. It's a matter of not letting the desert get the better...
...sympathetic reading of the film, Wertmuller has selected a conventional fantasy and stereotypic characters to parody the pervasively destructive effects of the link between sexual and social roles in Italian life. Even on a desert island the lovers must reproduce the warped roles of their society; the only type of relationship they can have is master to slave, since Gennarino's anger and Raffaella's masochism are so deeply rooted in their characters. If this were truly the thrust of the film, Swept Away would be a compelling feminist film effectively connecting sex and politics...
King Lear, 6, 9:25; Simon of the Desert, 8:25, weekend showing...
...Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Phantom of Liberty. Bunuel growing progressively more commercial, more boring and more simplistic. Epater les bourgeois really pays off, he learned. If you're in the mood for Bunuel, see Simon of the Desert instead...