Lina Wertmuller Collection (DVD Box Set) (DVD)
All Screwed Up
An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmüller, ALL SCREWED UP is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love and Anarchy (1973) and Swept Away (1974).
It tells the story of Gigi (Luigi Diberti) and Carletto (Nino Bignamini), two Southern country boys who travel north to get work in Milan. Arriving with nothing but the clothes on their backs, they join the labor movement and live in a communal home with other migrant workers, including some combative love interests. Their dreams of wealth devolve into a series of slapstick adventures, from an uproarious attempt at petty crime to the daily indignities of life in a restaurant kitchen.
A pointed satire that skewers the illusion of upward mobility, ALL SCREWED UP is essential viewing for fans of Lina Wertmüller. With exuberant and biting performances from Diberti and Bignamini, it's a comedy whose laughs stick in your throat.
Love & Anarchy
An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller (Seven Beauties), LOVE AND ANARCHY plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini.
Giancarlo Giannini (The Seduction of Mimi) won the best acting prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his achingly sensitive portrayal of Tunin, a freckle-faced innocent who became an accidental anarchist. His contact in Rome is Salomè (Mariangela Melato), a prostitute with her own sob story. While they prepare for the assassination, Tunin falls in love with Tripolina (Lina Polito), which threatens the entire operation.
A film of operatic emotion and subversive comedy, LOVE AND ANARCHY is a powerful statement on the terror of fascism and the ignoble fates of those who challenged it.
"One of the major film talents of our day." - Vincent Canby, The New York Times
"A master of filmmaking." - Roger Ebert
During the 1970s, Lina Wertmuller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors, Wertmuller was also one of the first female directors to win international recognition and acclaim, becoming the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1977.
All Screwed Up
- Lina Wertmüller - Director
- Lina Wertmüller - Writer
- Luigi Diberti - Actor
- Lina Polito - Actor
- Sara Rapisarda - Actor
- Giuliana Calandra - Actor
- Nino Bignamini - Actor
- Franco Fraticelli - Executive Producer
- Giuseppe Rotunno - Cinematographer
- Piero Piccioni - Composer
- Romano Cardarelli - Producer
Love & Anarchy
- Lina Wertmüller - Director
- Lina Wertmüller - Writer
- Giancarlo Giannini - Actor
- Lina Polito - Actor
- Mariangela Melato - Actor
- Mario Bramonti - Calypso
- Nino Rota - Composer
- Franco Fraticelli - Executive Producer
- Giuseppe Rotunno - Cinematographer
- Romano Cardarelli - Producer
Reviews
"BREATHTAKING... exuberantly funny. Watching 'All Screwed Up' is to be witness to a giant talent." - Vincent Canby, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"A BRILLIANT MOVIE that must be seen several times!" - Rex Reed
"Lina Wertmüller is THE MOST IMPORTANT DIRECTOR SINCE INGMAR BERGMAN!" - John Simon, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"A FASCINATING FILM! Rich in character and mood." - Gene Shalit, NBC-TV
"Passionate and stirring." - The New York Times
"Breathtaking... executed with the high-pitched passion of a gothic romance with a fluid, whirling, dazzling energy." - Newsweek
"A film of extraordinary vigor and force, possessed of boldness and ferocity." - New York Daily News
Awards
Official Selection San Francisco International Film FestivalBest Actor Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection Panorama of European Cinema
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