Word: melato
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...Coolidge Corner, Lina Wert-mueller's Swept Away makes you wonder if part of the avant-garde hasn't decided it is too cool for feminism. A northern Italian bitch-goddess (Mariangela Melato) teases and insults a poor, swarthy crew member (Giancarlo Giannini) on her husband's yacht, and when the two of them find themselves marooned on an uninhabited island everything turns upside down. Giannini turns his former oppressor into his concubine/serf and, as in Seven Beauties, shows he can do more with his eyes than anyone this side of Marty Feldman. There is a kind of love...
...performance of Verdi's Otello. To be fair, Bergman usually knows how cliched his situations are, and he often satirizes them in clever ways. In a typical over-melodramatic sequence, for example, handsome Bob Fine (O'Neal) meets and falls in love with the voluptuous and married Lira (Mariangela Melato). They gaze intensly at each other, finally they clasp hands. Slowly their lips meet, they kiss deeply. They separate and gaze into each other's eyes. Lira says, "I fuck around...
...Bergman's script. O'Neal is only somewhat convincing as the nerdy English professor, a man who talks about decor while a beautiful woman is seducing him. When he is called upon to grow in the movie, he manifests the change more in his costume than in his manner. Melato does acceptably as the lusty, Latin, sexually frustrated wife, but she fails to being much originality to this fairly conventional role. As character actors, Warden and Kiel deliver their roles in the usual manner: Warden as the gruff but lovable paternal figure, Kiel (remember Jaws in the James Bond movies...
...warned. "She's like 25 men," says her frequent leading lady, Mariangela Melato. "I've never seen so monstrous a vitality. When you work with Lina, you can forget you have personal problems, emotional states, responsibilities. You dedicate yourself entirely...
...come to Rome to assassinate Mussolini. In The Seduction of Mimi, she observed how a laborer (Giannini again) allowed his socialist politics to be bought off by employers and mobsters. Swept Away concerned a helplessly aggressive sailor (yes, Giannini) shipwrecked on a desert island with a wealthy woman (Melato...