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Margaronis, Maria | August 20, 2001 issue

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This article focuses on the motion picture "Mandolin," directed by Captain Corelli. This movie is based on a novel by Louis de Bernières. The romance between moon-calf Nicolas Cage, an actor in the movie as a captain of the Italian occupying forces and smoldering Penelope Cruz, an actor in the movie, as the local doctor's daughter is pure Hollywood creampuff. It could almost have been shot in the 1950's as a vehicle for Sophia Loren. The film of Captain Corelli differs from de Bernières's novel in its account of these events, and especially of the part played in them by the Greek partisans. Both have been shaped by the protracted political struggle in Greece and abroad over the country's wartime past.

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MANDOLIN (Film); MOTION pictures; CORELLI, Captain; CAGE, Nicolas, 1965-; CRUZ, Penelope; DE Bernieres, Louis
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