Captain Corelli's Mandolin delivers

Rating: 4/10 (24 April 2001)

What with recent book to film adaptations being disapointing at best I approached Captain Corelli's Mandolin with some caution. Thankfully I was not disapointed. It is a wonderfully moving well written, directed and acted film,with Nicholas Cage in partculary enchanting in the title role.The film takes place on a small Greek island during the second world war in 1940 and tells of the story of a infantry of Itallian soldiers who arrive on this small peaceful island. Complications ensue when Captain Corelli falls for the daughter of the local doctor, who is engaged to a local soldier who is fighting in Albania.