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Captain Corelli in the Mandolin, by the “unfilmable” novel by Louis de Bernieres, is a kind of old-fashioned romantic melodrama that is unlikely to ever reach as multiplexers and in those days. While there is nothing ground-violation or other emergency on the film, it sent a qualified, well-photographed, and the (mostly) good works. The storyline is not always rely on a worn-out cliches and tired formulas, as well as the identification of the nature and the interplay of forces that use the reader emotions. All-in-all, Captain Corelli will find favor in the Mandolin almost everyone who appreciates this kind of motion pictures.

The film opens on the eve of World War II in Greece. This is 1940, and on the island of Cephalonia, life goes on as usual. One of the “normal” activities this time of Pelagia (Penelope Cruz), the daughter of the resident doctor, Dr. Iannis (John Hert), and Mandras (Christian Bale), a fisherman. Two announce its participation in the day before Mandras was before the war. He promises to write, but Pelagia heard nothing from him, it happens letter unanswered. Meanwhile, Cephalonia falls under the Italian occupation. The officer billeted in Dr. Iannis house is a mandolin playing, opera-loving Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicolas Cage). After initially resisting attraction, he and Pelagia falls in love - just in time for Mandaras return. But Italian officers faced a moral crisis when Mussolini lets Allies and the Germans to move in to seize the Italian occupation: they give and give Germans capture, or did they fight their former allies, along with the Greek guerrillas?

The most interesting aspect of Captain Corelli at Mandolin is how the film explores the changing relationship between occupiers (the Germans and Italians) and the occupied (Greek). First, there is a lot of hostility, but with the passage of time, both sides know each other, a camaraderie develops with caution, especially between the Italians and Greeks. The Germans, represented by an officer, Captain Gunter Weber (David Morrissey), are always viewed with suspicion. Therefore ease tensions that the romance between Captain Corelli and Pelagia develops. On enamored of the beauty from the beginning, but she resists until she finds out that he is more sensitive than she first believed. The film also resists the temptation to turn Mandras in cardboard cut-jilted lover. For the latter, he acted with honor.

As Captain Corelli, Nicolas Cage few give. This is not one of those cases where an actor’s presence in the role of torpedoes the entire movie, but there are cases (especially at the beginning of the process), when Cage did not seem comfortable living in Corelli skin. He went on-on-top, and takes the title character fatuous than it should be. Penelope Cruz and Christian Bale are solid, but unspectacular. While their characters to be deeply in love with film in the first quarter, these two exhibits no chemistry with each other. Fortunately, Cruz and Cage unable to identify a few sparks, which allows us to believe in passion and commitment between Pelagia and Corelli. Recently, Cruz was to get a huge amount of exposure in American financing (or co-financing) products, and this is the last rung on the ladder to stardom. (Her next film, Vanilla Sky, place it opposite Tom Cruise for director Cameron Crowe.) real diamonds in the cast is John Hert, which brings gusto to this part of analogues of which he has not shown since Love and Death on Long Island. Hert plays Dr. Iannis as wise mentor in the sports movie - it always has some nugget of truth or knowledge to give (think Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid).

For director John Madden, whose last two features were Shakespeare in Love and Mrs. Brown, Captain Corelli in the Mandolin gives him the opportunity to pursue his preference for character drama initiative. The film also has a message to impart on the inhumanity of men by other men in the war. It does so through a series of shocking scenes that, while lacking visceral impact of the battle of images in Saving Private Ryan, it is less effective because of the suddenness with which they occur. No adhesive, which contains a film together, and the element that will use most of the spectators in the theater, this is the romance between Pelagia and Corelli. They are not a novel for the ages, but it is strong enough that Captain Corelli in the Mandolin may apply to the English patient audience (though this film is less confusing and more rapidly than the rate of Oscar winner). In the midst of a movie cacophony that defines August this picture plays setup, which is pleasing to the ear.

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