Cinema: Water Torture

THE END OF THE WORLD IN

OUR USUAL BED IN A NIGHT FULL

OF RAIN

Directed and Written by Lina Wertmuller

Though every talented film maker has the right to make a clinker now and then, Lina Wertmuller has really outdone herself in her first English-language film. This all too cutely titled comedy is not merely a failure: it's a devastating self-parody. Indeed, audiences who sit through it may well begin to wonder why they ever admired such superior Wertmuller efforts as Love and Anarchy and Seven Beauties. Or they may wonder if they stay awake.

The film is essentially a flat variation on Swept Away—with...

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