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  Swept Away (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
With any discussion of Swept Away, we don’t examine the question “is it bad?” The issue becomes “is it as bad as they say?” Honestly, no, it isn’t.
Swept Away appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Swept Away seemed overly bright at times, but I felt these issues related to the original cinematography.
www.dvdmg.com /sweptaway.shtml   (1996 words)

  
 Swept Away (2002) - A Review by David Nusair
Though Swept Away is quite a bad film, it just might be worth watching if you're with a feminist (doesn't even have to be the vigilant kind; any will do).
With Swept Away, not only has Ritchie abandoned the go-for-broke visual style of his first couple of films, but he's given us two poorly developed characters and expects us to care what happens to them.
Is Swept Away supposed to be a fable?
www.reelfilm.com /swptaway.htm   (718 words)

  
 Swept Away, Vacation Rental on Staniel Cay, Exumas, Bahamas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Swept Away is a new vacation rental home on Staniel Cay, Exumas, with an incredible 360 degree view of the island and the surrounding multi-hued waters.
Swept Away emphasizes charm and privacy, from the winding entrance drive to private wood decks off the master bedroom and living area that offer incredible island views.
Swept Away is situated on the south end of Staniel Cay.
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 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "Swept Away"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Madonna, in the Melato role, spends most of "Swept Away" in a fl bikini, which isn't an entirely bad thing, considering how hard she works on her body.
One of the baldest (and emptiest) of Wertmüller's provocations in the first "Swept Away" was the way Giannini's character beat, slapped and kicked his island wench into submission.
The new "Swept Away" doesn't know what kind of movie it ought to be, or even why it should exist in the first place.
www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/10/16/swept_away   (1004 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Swept Away at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
With all the talk (mostly negative) about Guy Ritchie’s and Madonna’s vanity project, the remake of Swept Away, I just had to use this as an excuse to rent the original 1975 Italian film, directed by Lina Wertmuller.
The man turns the tables on her on the island, and that involves forcing her into the role that he thinks women should play, based on what he has learned from his ideology.
Swept Away is a powerful film in its own way, and is obviously a daring work, as troubling as it is. And it is troubling.
www.epinions.com /content_78987759236   (1476 words)

  
 Review: Swept Away (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
For the most part, 2002's Swept Away is a relatively faithful remake of the original, at least in terms of the broad strokes.
Swept Away tells the improbable love story of Amber (Madonna), the sourpuss wife of a rich man (Bruce Greenwood), and Guiseppe (Adriano Giannini), a deck worker on a private yacht.
As told by Lina Wertmuller, Swept Away is a fascinating and involving examination of gender issues and the shifting balance of a relationship — a drama with comedic overtones.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/swept_away2002.html   (653 words)

  
 Swept Away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
This is especially noticeable in the burgeoning crop of remakes--recycled movies from the past attesting to both the failure of imagination of corporate producers, as well as their search for a guaranteed return on their investment.
Lina Wertmüller's 1975 film, Swept Away, was a popular oddity, a strange mixture of politics and sex that worked, mostly due to the heat generated by its stars, Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini, he of the tired, smoldering eyes and smoky voice.
Swept Away isn't funny and it isn't romantic--it's a romantic comedy in name only.
www.culturevulture.net /Movies5/SweptAway.htm   (699 words)

  
 Swept Away is a Great Resort - Jamaica Trip Reports - Jamaica Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Their specialty was tropical drinks of course and tasted better when they went easy on the rum, which you had to ask for.
Swept Away is a couples only sports resort with tennis, racketball, squash courts, gigantic weight room, aerobics room, spas, massage facilities, jacuzzis, running track.
Swept Away is a couples only resort, no kids and no single males on the hunt.
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 DVD Review: Swept Away (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Swept Away has been called 2002's shittiest film.
Swept Away is a film that fails on nearly every level.
Couple that with his headache inducing cutting and POV shots and not only does Swept Away make you long for the ending, but it gets you there with a pain in noggin.
www.lightsoutfilms.com /dvd_sweptaway.html   (569 words)

  
 CNN.com - Review: Stay away from 'Swept Away' - Oct. 10, 2002
Undoubtedly Guy Ritchie's version of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 Italian-language classic "Swept Away" will be compared ad nauseam to the original by high-minded pundits from coast to coast -- many of whom probably never saw the original.
Both Ritchie and his wife Madonna -- the star of the film -- have stated again and again that remaking the original, with all its class and political conflict and heavy violence and sex, was not their intention.
Thank goodness for that, because the new "Swept Away" has little in common with the previous film.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/10/review.swept.away   (729 words)

  
 Swept Away film movie trailer review at The Z Review
Swept Away is supposed to be released in the UK in March next year, will this still go ahead?
Madonna has been talking about her role in the upcoming Swept Away and she has said she "felt like a virgin" during shooting love making scenes in front of her husband and that it was "really wierd.
Swept Away will begin production this year or early next year and will be shot in Italy, Greece and Turkey.
www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/s/sweptaway.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Moviehole.net - Swept Away
A remake of a director Lina Wertmuller’s 1974 film of the same name, “Swept” teams for the first time, husband and wife, Madonna — she of material girl fame — and Guy Ritchie — he of credible gangster pics like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
A short series of circumstances has the pair washed away to a deserted island, where they begin to bicker, bitch, slap, tickle and ultimately, give in to their desires.
“Swept Away” is a major blow to both Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s careers.
www.moviehole.net /reviews/589.html   (784 words)

  
 Modamag.com | Swept Away (Movie Review)
The new “Swept Away” is a remake of the notorious 1974 Lina Wertmueller original that shook the foundations of cinema with its audacity and explorations of communism vs. capitalism.
Take away the subtext, and you have “The Blue Lagoon,” but give the subtext that’s there no life, and you have a film with no pulse.
“Swept Away” is an uphill battle that Ritchie isn’t prepared for, and doesn’t seem particularly convinced he’ll win.
www.modamag.com /sweptaway.htm   (857 words)

  
 Swept Away -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Swept Away is a 2002 (Click link for more info and facts about romantic comedy film) romantic comedy film.
The film is a remake of the 1974 (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian film Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto which (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English title also is Swept Away.
A storm leaves Amber on a desert island, together with the ship's (The officer below the master on a commercial ship) first mate Giuseppe (Adriano Giannini), a communist sailor who she eventually falls in love with.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sw/swept_away.htm   (161 words)

  
 Review: Swept Away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
During its initial release, Swept Away was controversial for its bold depiction of gender relations.
Swept Away is more concerned with issues and the shifting balance of power in relationships than it is about pursuing a complex narrative.
Although there is a great deal of seriousness in the issues addressed by Swept Away, the film is at times bitingly funny.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/swept_away.html   (1356 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Woman swept away in JHB flash flood
A 36-year-old woman was swept away by a flash flood in the Jukskei River in Johannesburg as she and her two children were trying to cross on Monday.
Their mother, whose name has not yet been released, managed to push one of them out of the raging river before she was swept away by the wall of water.
Mark Strydom (12), his brother Kallie Strydom (13) and their friend Kyle Hasson (13) were swept down the Jukskei River during a flash flood while seeking shelter under a bridge near Ellis Park.
iafrica.com /news/sa/8694.htm   (492 words)

  
 swept away - review at videovista
Swept Away (aka: Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare di agosto / 'Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August') is a film that poses particular problems for a modern audience.
Instead once away from the yacht he will gain superiority by use of his exaggerated masculinity, while at the end the 'real' Gennarino (as he deems it) is actually far less sophisticated than his political awareness suggests.
Ultimately, what redeems a film veering towards the uncomfortable is not so much the tartness of Wertmüller's observations, but the moving presentation of a man and woman who, no matter what their class bias, can still find genuine emotional engagement in a fractious world.
www.videovista.net /reviews/feb05/sweptaway.html   (1374 words)

  
 Swept Away
As I wondered about what to write about Swept Away, I debated in my mind about whether it is the worst movie ever made.
It may well be the worst film ever made if your definition is "the one that did the worst job with what it had to work with".
Flash forward another eight years to Swept Away, and she had gotten worse again.
www.scoopy.com /sweptaway.htm   (1717 words)

  
 Couples Swept Away Resort in Negril, Jamaica
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 Movie Photos: Swept Away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Madonna and Adriano Giannini in Columbia's Swept Away - 2002
Madonna, the material girl, plays a classic rich bitch in SWEPT AWAY, an awful B-movie.
Written and directed by her husband, Guy Ritchie (SNATCH), the movie's only fun moments come when it is so bad that it becomes kind of fun to laugh at.
www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2002_Swept_Away_photo.html   (509 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Swept Away (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
She and a high-spirited crew member (Adriano Giannini) are marooned on a small deserted island; the feud that sprang up between the two on the ship becomes an all-out war, then transforms into lustful desire as Amber finds that losing status opens up a new side to herself.
"Swept Away" reeks chiefly because of its sexist plot, which basically says that an unreasonable woman can be "tamed" if you smack her around a few times and force her to call you "master" as Amber did at Guiseppe's command.
Swept Away is by no means cinamatic genius, but it really is amusing.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007L4OE?v=glance   (2033 words)

  
 Tennis Resorts Online: Couples Swept Away Negril   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Couples Swept Away in Negril caters to adult vacationers looking for an active vacation, tennis players chief among them.
The resort accepts couples and singles, putting them up in 134 verandahed rooms and 72 new suites scattered through a 20-acre garden that borders a seven-mile-long ribbon of soft white sand.
"My husband and I recently went to Couples Swept Away Negril for their Tennis Fantasy Camp in mid January 2005 which was a marvelous venue with a beautiful beach and romantic setting.
www.tennisresortsonline.com /trofiles/SweptAway.cfm   (509 words)

  
 Swept Away on DVD - MovieWeb
The class tables turn when she winds up lost at sea and eventually swept onto a deserted island with the same sailor she's been extra rude to all through the voyage.
Giuseppe (Adriano Giannini, son of Giancarlo, who played the same role in the original) seizes the chance to dominate his former employer, and dictate the terms of their survival and inevitable torrid island passion.
Swept Away - MGuy Ritchie writes and directs Madonna in this remake of the 1975 Italian comedy, where a slovenly sailor (Giannini) is cast adrift on an island with his employer, a rich self-centered woman who is used to having her own way.
www.movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?043396087804   (412 words)

  
 Fishing village swept away in Myanmar - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
A Myanmar seasonal fishing village of some 600 people was swept into the sea by killer tsunamis last Sunday, leaving 17 dead and scores of families with nothing but shattered lives.
It was swept away, all huts were destroyed and 17 people were killed in our village, mostly young children," fishing contractor Ko Myo Tun, 37, told AFP in one of the first personal accounts of the disaster reported in the secretive country.
But some of the unattended ones, 14 in all, were swept away right before our eyes," Myo Tun said.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan022005/i22.asp   (371 words)

  
 Swept Away
Setting up Swept Away was the challenge which faced co-producers Adam Bohling and David Reid.
The shooting schedule of Swept Away covered a six-week period, which started with three weeks based at Malta's Mediterranean Film Studios.
The production designer of Swept Away is Russell de Rozario, who created the designs for the recent Ska Films production, Mean Machine.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/SweptAway-1116774/about.php   (3126 words)

  
 CNN.com - Parents search for children swept away - Jan 6, 2005
Ragnar Ericsson was swept away when the tsunamis hit the Thai resort where he was staying.
He is among many anguished parents searching for their children after the earthquake-triggered tsunamis swept through coastal communities from Thailand to East Africa on December 26, killing more than 155,000 people.
Ericsson, visiting from Norway, struggled to maintain his grip on his son when the waves slammed into the resort where his family was staying in Khao Lak.
www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/missing.children   (689 words)

  
 Swept Away
A half-hour drive from Sammy Sosa's hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, the massive 7,000-acre Casa de Campo resort offers a 135-horse stable for riding and polo, snorkeling, tennis, skeet-shooting, and the fearsome seaside golf course Teeth of the Dog (recently ranked twenty-eighth in the world by Golf magazine).
Set on a rocky coast, Casa de Campo has only a man-made beach, but the resort town of Punta Cana, 90 minutes away, is a beach bum's dream.
Stay there in one of the well-appointed bungalows at the new Sol Meliá Caribe resort, and dine on fresh fruit and seafood at its open-air restaurant by the sea.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/travel/guides/52weekends/features/4384   (287 words)

  
 Madonna nearly a washout in 'Swept Away' remake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Whatever you may think of Madonna, it's impossible not to admire the perseverance with which she's pursued her childhood dream of being a movie star.
But she's never completely clicked, and she doesn't even come close in "Swept Away," a remake of the 1975 Italian comedy directed by her hubby, Guy Ritchie, which had the Seattle preview audience earlier this week laughing in all the wrong places.
She plays a fortyish wife cruising the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht with her husband (Bruce Greenwood) and a party of bored rich folk who takes particular bitchy delight in making life hell for a handsome young Italian sailor (Adriano Giannini).
seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/90632_swept11q.shtml   (637 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Swept Away [2002]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Madonna gives her most believable performance in Swept Away as Amber, a rich woman on a sea cruise who expects the world to obey her every whim.
When she and a high-spirited crew member (Adriano Giannini) are marooned on a small deserted island the feud that sprang up between them on the ship becomes an all-out war then changes into lustful desire as Amber finds that losing status opens up a new side of her personality.
You begin to wish the film had taken advice from its own title, and been swept away on the cutting room floor.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008V6YY   (1001 words)

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