Swept Away 4K UHD (1974) Raro Video

[MifuneFan]

Raro Video (via Kino distribution) will be releasing their very first 4K release on April 29th with Lina Wertmüller's Swept Away (1974).

https://kinolorber.com/product/swept-away

Set against the backdrop of the shimmering Mediterranean Sea, Swept Away is Lina Wertmüller’s (Seven Beauties) wildly controversial film about sex, love and politics. On an elegant yacht cruising off the coast of Sardinia, Raffaella (Mariangela Melato), a rich and stunning capitalist, enjoys tormenting Gennarino (Giancarlo Giannini), a Communist sailor. Fate weaves a different scenario and roles become reversed when the two find themselves stranded together on a deserted island and Raffaella needs Gennarino’s survivalist skills in order to stay alive. Restored in 2024 from the original film negatives by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with Minerva Pictures and Mediaset, carried out by L’Immagine Ritrovata.

4K (DISC 1) AND BLU-RAY (DISC 2) SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan
• Archival Audio Commentary by filmmaker Valerio Ruiz, director of the Lina Wertmüller documentary Behind the White Glasses

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EXCLUSIVES (DISC 2)

• Interview with director Amy Heckerling (Clueless)
• Trailers

[brainofj72]

Can't say I ever expected to see Raro entering the UHD game.

[Mr. Kino]

I want to be excited. I’d kill for Seven Beauties and The Conformist in 4k. But Ritrovata doing the restoration makes me think the image will be swept away by piss water.
Still, better than nothing I guess.

[nicwood]

Wow, this is huge news. Absolutely incredible. Hopefully this is a SDR master as this’ll surely be encoded by Kino. Fingers crossed this sells well and we get more of Wertmüller’s films in 4K as the older masters are overdue for upgrades.

But then again Raro have a deal with Radiance in the UK…

[saltburn]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kino

I want to be excited. I’d kill for Seven Beauties and The Conformist in 4k. But Ritrovata doing the restoration makes me think the image will be swept away by piss water.
Still, better than nothing I guess.

I still don’t get why they didn’t do a UHD of The Conformist instead of releasing the 4K restoration on BD only.

Will gladly pick up Swept Away again though.

[MagellanvsHimself]

Originally Posted by Mr. Kino

I want to be excited. I’d kill for Seven Beauties and The Conformist in 4k. But Ritrovata doing the restoration makes me think the image will be swept away by piss water.
Still, better than nothing I guess.

I am also quite worried about this - the restoration studio has left much to be desired. RARO hasn't afforded great encodes in the past either. My hope is that a foreign boutique label picks this title up.

[dallywhitty]

Someone really ought to rescue Wertmüller's On a Moonlit Night from obscurity.

[sultanofcinema]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Someone really ought to rescue Wertmüller's On a Moonlit Night from obscurity.

I picked it up at Orbit this weekend. It is not like other Raro titles, first foray into 4k and it is sweet as well as the outstanding sound which is twice what the former Kino Classics Blu-ray was. I understand they are following up with Seven Beauties. Nice slip case and was 27.99. Remember, this film is shot thru a with a gauzy look for the most part and looked like this theatrically, which I have seen many times. The outdoor initial sequences are very nice with full color and guess what?....,l. No yellow tint to it. Film is presented thru Minerva Films. When I saw it theatrically, it was distributed thru Cinema 5.

[DaylightsEnd]

Sounds intriguing. I preordered this 4k from Orbit but unfortunately I bulked it in with Fistful of Dollars 4k which is delayed a good month or so. It'll be a while before I'm able to check this one out, I'm sure.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by DaylightsEnd

Sounds intriguing. I preordered this 4k from Orbit but unfortunately I bulked it in with Fistful of Dollars 4k which is delayed a good month or so. It'll be a while before I'm able to check this one out, I'm sure.

They're starting to ship Fistful out now, so you might get it sooner

[Rizor]

I got my copy in from Target last week. Maybe I'll check it out later.

[cascade 15]

The 4K version of Swept Away is dramatically better than the DVD and BR versions; that is visually. The audio is the way that it is because of the Italian way of dubbing everything after shooting is completed, in those days and possibly even today. Francis Ford Coppola got upset with the Italians during the filming of Megalopolis because they would make noise or say something that he then had to reshoot.

[DaylightsEnd]

Holy crap is this guy's wife annoying.....Zoinks!!!!!!! I think I would've thrown myself in the ocean.