Give me "Fortunes of War" anytime

Rating: 1/10 (13 April 1999)

To me, TEP is like an expensively made, decorative photo-Roman. Some people may actually enjoy it if they are not used to movies of different kind; the kind that have not just talking mannequins shot photogenically against filterd posters of desert sunsets, but with real people in them.
For others who can't forgive themselves for the time they spent watching this movie, I recommend "Fortunes of War", a BBC production (1989 ?) about the life of people, including, but not exclusively, an English couple during WWII. Similarity of the film with TEP ends there. "Fortune" has real story and acting, and good ones on top of it, thank heavens. It's 6 hours long but very enjoyable 6 hours, so you can make up the 3 hours you wasted for TEP.