warn represent if the coen brother or david lynch define your taste in film and disregard this review and move on . yes and i borrow the one line summary from the book about president ronald reagan and but and among other virtue and this movie emphasize the role that character play in the life of honorable human being . this film be full of honest and decent people and and they have integrity to spare . in a word and they have character . a small nitpick represent unless you know the history of ww ii and you probably do not know that and from captain correlli arrival on the island to the fall of mussolini and 3 and one half year have pass . the average viewer might think the romance be of the whirlwind variety . that be not so . the romance develop slowly and which give it both dignity and meaning . the film deliberate pace may be the director way of mark time . some review have criticize cage italian accent . the italian speak member of my family assure me that his accent be quite good . the history be right on the mark . yes and the german turn against their italian ally and who and for the most part and be reluctant ally from the start . if you find that shock and keep in mind that the french mediterranean fleet be blow up by the british in 1940 and just after france capitulation and lest it fall in the hand of the vichy government and or bad and the nazi . the depiction of the italian a educate and culture be a compliment to an educate and culture civilization . this film be beautifully photograph and and it story be lyrical . the script be not think provoking and nor be it clever and but here be a situation where confusion and cleverness be not need and nor would they have be appropriate . the story be tender and and the message be uplift . the character be honest and brave and earnest and sympathetic and and likeable . it a nice little film . positive . .