Nothing Works Everything Ready Movie Review

This early Lina Wertmuller film is a fast, occasionally funny yarn about how some young Sicilian men and women make a start in Northern Italy (Milan, to be specific), even though they have no money and are constantly being victimized. There is one semi-rape sequence. The victim loves it. Wert-muller shows the moment, then lets it go without comment. She would explore sexual politics in much greater depth in 1975's Swept Away….<img1.5>

1974 107m/C IT Luigi Diberti, Lina Polito, Nine Bignamini, Sara Rapisarda, Guiliana Calandra, Isa Danieli; D: Lina Wertmuller; W: Lina Wertmuller; C: Giuseppe Rotunno; M: Piero Piccioni.