Tracy Danison, who writes for us from Paris, e-mailed me last week with the news that Lina Wertmüller, the award winning director, had died in Rome, at 93. Together we had seen a series of Wertmüller’s films (including Seven Beauties and Swept Away), at an old movie house in Schenectady, NY. You can find the New York Times obituary here.
Her films are streaming now on the Criterion Channel and I look forward to watching them. Do they hold up?
Meanwhile, here’s the opening montage from “Seven Beauties.” Well, alas it’s not here. Have you seen it, or other Wertmüller films? What do you think of Swept Away? — sdh
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