1. Swept Away movie review & film summary (2002) - Roger Ebert
It strands two unattractive characters, one bitchy, one moronic, on an island where neither they, nor we, have anyone else to look at or listen to.
"Swept Away" is a deserted island movie during which I desperately wished the characters had chosen one movie to take along if they were stranded on a
2. Swept Away | Rotten Tomatoes
There is a lack of chemistry between the characters, the script is not very convincing. Madonna -often all what people know about the movie- is not especially ...
Imagine being shipwrecked on a beautiful island -- with someone you really can't stand. A young soldier (Adriano Giannini) is cast adrift on an island with his employer, a rich, self-centered woman who is used to having her own way. Cut off from society, he reverses their roles, stripping her of pride and vanity and controlling her completely. Until, that is, she falls in love with him.
3. Swept Away | Reelviews Movie Reviews
For the most part, 2002's Swept Away is a relatively faithful remake of the original, at least in terms of the broad strokes.
The word that best describes Guy Ritchie's version of Swept Away is
4. Raspberry Picking: Swept Away (2002) - Alternate Ending
11 apr 2023 · This time, we're looking at Swept Away, winner of five Razzie Awards including worst picture, the first movie ever to win both Worst Picture and ...
Mandy goes adrift with the ill-fated Madonna-Ritchie vehicle Swept Away. Did their ship deserve to go down this way?
5. Swept Away - Variety
11 okt 2002 · This misguided attempt to remake Lina Wertmuller's corrosive 1974 satire as a wistful romance is only unintentionally funny in the last reel.
Likely to join the Madonna's cinematic hall of ill fame that includes "Shanghai Surprise," "Who's That Girl" and "The Next Best Thing" is director-scenarist-spouse Guy Ritchie's "Swept Away," though the badmouthing is likely to overshadow what's actually onscreen -- a simple misfire rather than a world-class fiasco.
6. Review: Swept Away - Slant Magazine
9 okt 2002 · Guy Ritchie's remake of Lina Wertmuller's Swept Away...By an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August is not the disaster that we've been led to believe.
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7. Swept Away | Reviews - Screen Daily
13 okt 2002 · Ritchie's script follows the narrative of the original film fairly closely but drops most of the overt political content. The result is a ...
Dir: Guy Ritchie. UK-US. 2002. 89mins.Even with husband Guy Ritchie writing and directing, Swept Away turns out to be another bewilderingly off-key movie vehicle for Madonna, a misconceived and unappealing romantic comedy - based on Lina Wertmuller's 1974 Italian film Travolti da un Insolito Destino nell'Azzurro Mare d'Agosto - that ...
8. Swept Away Review - Hollywood.com
7 jun 2014 · With corny lines like “Run my little vixen run ” the film walks too fine a line between being an old-fashioned romance and being just plain ...
Guy Ritchie delivers a pretty faithful remake of Lina Wertmuller's 1974 Swept Away. The end result is an old-fashioned love story that in the 21st century seems kind of dated.
9. Guy Ritchie's Swept Away Was Possibly the Best Movie of 2002
5 jan 2014 · Whereas in Wertmüller's film, the ending was prototypically comical in that tragicomic sort of Neapolitan way. Ritchie's decision to conclude ...
Swept Away, the 2002 remake of Lina Wertmüller’s Travolti da un insolito destino nell’azzurro mare d’agosto (you can see why they changed the name), was universally acknowledged a…
10. Madonna and Julius: A Cinematic Retrospective – SWEPT AWAY ...
8 dec 2014 · At least that's what a lawsuit proposed just days before the final movie came out. By the time the case went to trial in 2004, Swept Away had ...
Madonna In December 2000, just after The Next Best Thing was released to thudding reviews, Madonna married Guy Ritchie, director of Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Madonna had been dating Guy starting in 1999, and, in August 1999, they had their first child, Rocco. Rocco was christened in December, and they married the day after.
11. Swept Away (2002) - PopMatters
She doesn't even really stumble, only makes a misstep here and there. It is her best acting to date. Unfortunately, her hard work is essentially wasted in the ...
We all like to gripe about Madonna as an actress.