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Mediterraneo

1991

Gabriele Salvatores

Claudio Bigagli, Diego Abatantuono, Giuseppe Cederna, Ugo Conti ...

7.0

7,420

Comedy Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there. Actually, the island isn't ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"armhearted, good-natured and gently humorous, and that may be enough to send some people home satisfied and cheered up. Others are just as likely to realize that these qualities cannot disguise the film’s essential triteness"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"There's no historical or philosophical background, no depth, nothing but sun, sand, saccharine and a stirring bouzouki score, and the surprisingly bitter epilogue doesn't begin to redress the balance."	NEG
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Mediterraneo' has all of the carefully calculated simulated innocence of a Broadway musical, but, also like a Broadway musical (or at least, like a good one), it knows just how far it can go before too much becomes oppressive."	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"An ironic, gently amusing charmer, even though its familiar anti-war elements jostle clumsily with its not entirely persuasive case for running away from real life's disappointments (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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