Synopsis
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageCaptain Antonio Corelli
- Penélope CruzPelagia
- John HurtDr. Iannis
- Christian BaleMandras
- David MorrisseyCaptain Günther Weber
- Irene PapasDrosoula
- Gerasimos SkiadaresisMr. Stamatis
- Aspasia KralliMrs. Stamatis
- Mihalis GiannatosKokolios
- Dimitris KamberidisFather Aresenios (as Dimitris Kamperidis)
Recommendations
- 80
TV Guide Magazine
The able cast brings these emotionally complex characters to life, while making Shawn Slovo's occasionally lyrical dialogue sound perfectly natural. - 75
USA Today
The result is far from perfect, but to its many merits, add timing. You never get a movie with this kind of story in mid-August. - 67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ultimately, it's a surprisingly empty experience. - 63
New York Daily News
Grand passion, secrecy, world politics and mortal danger provide a heady mix for this spectacularly beautiful movie. If only the accents were as reliable as the azure of the sea. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Handsomely weathered John Hurt, as Pelagia's father, gives a performance of such unhackneyed dignity that it provides a moral compass for the action and helps to keep the ricocheting emotional content of the film in balance. - 50
Chicago Reader
Strives for comprehensive coverage of its theme of forbidden love. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
In this film there is a scene where something is said in English pronounced with one accent, and a character asks, ''What did he say?'' and he is told -- in English pronounced with another accent. - 30
Newsweek
Every role is miscast. Whose idea was it to have the boyishly British Bale play an illiterate Greek peasant, or the elegant Hurt a gruff-voiced country doctor? Cruz’s run of bad luck in American movies continues.
