The cinema has told us many stories of shipwrecks. Paradise, The Blue Lagoon, Robinson Crusoe, Lost, Survival Island… and many other films. Castaway has a peculiarity: it tells the story of a voluntary shipwreck, and it’s a true story.
In 1980 the writer and adventurer Gerald Kingsland placed a weird ad in the newspaper: he’s looking for a partner to spend a year on a desert island, like two castaways. Lucy Irvine responds to the announcement and the two leave for Tuin Island, New Guinea. In 1983 Lucy Irvine publishes a book in which she recounts this experience. Three years later the homonymous film, directed by Nicolas Roeg, was released.
Lucy is played by Amanda Donohoe, a good and beautiful English actress who shows herself naked for most of the film.
