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Captain Corelli's Mandolin, 2001

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Christian Bale, John Hurt

Directed by: John Madden

Written by: Shawn Slovo

Language: English, Greek, German, Italian

Country: UK, France, USA

Runtime: 131 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:5.8

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The mood of Captain Corelli's Mandolin is sentimental, atmospheric, and stylized. The plot centers around impossible love, wartime life, and soldiers. It is a drama, romance, and period movie. Stylistically, Captain Corelli's Mandolin has a Hollywood tone and is epic. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, on an island and in a village. Captain Corelli's Mandolin is set in Greece. It happens in the 20th century. It is based on a book. Captain Corelli's Mandolin is especially suggested for a girls' night and a date night. Note that it includes sexual content and violent content.

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In keeping with Hollywood's time-honored tradition of turning celebrated novels into cinematic spectacles, director John Madden brings Louis de Bernière's acclaimed 1994 work, CORELLI'S MANDOLIN, to life. Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1940, the film tells the story of the beautiful Pelagia (Penelope Cruz), who lives with her father, Dr. Iannis (John Hurt), and is engaged to a local fisherman, Mandras (Christian Bale). When Mandras leaves the island to fight for his country, Pelagia is left behind to worry, and to wait for a letter that never arrives. In the meantime, the Italian army occupies Cephalonia, and Pelagia and Dr. Iannis receive a new visitor into their home. Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicolas Cage), a romantic opera lover with a passion for playing the mandolin, annoys Pelagia with his free-spirited personality, but it's this charm that eventually wins her heart. Soon, the two are head over heels in love. Mandras's return adds friction to the situation, but when the Germans sweep in and begin to senselessly murder the town's locals, Captain Corelli and Mandras must place their differences aside in order to preserve the island. Exquisitely photographed by cinematographer John Toll, Madden's film boasts impassioned performances by Hurt and by the legendary actress Irene Papas.

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Language:	English, Greek, German, Italian
Country:	UK, France, USA
Release date:	13 August 2001
Runtime:	131 min

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Nicolas Cage

as Captain Antonio Corelli

Penélope Cruz

as Pelagia

Christian Bale

as Mandras

John Hurt

as Dr. Iannis

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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. Full Review

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by: Bob Graham

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The able cast brings these emotionally complex characters to life, while making Shawn Slovo's occasionally lyrical dialogue sound perfectly natural. Full Review

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by: Frank Lovece

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