This is a nice Italian movie, with some beautiful scenes and adequate acting. It would seem that some scenes have been cut in a clumsy effort to speed up the story. One wonders what the Academy Awards jury were thinking when they awarded the Oscar for best foreign language film to "Mediterraneo", rather than to "Raise the Red Lantern". I could easily name a lot of films from 1991 that weren't even nominated and deserved the Oscar more than this movie: La belle noiseuse, Delicatessen, Europa, Obloko-raj, Toto le héros, Tous les matins du monde, Urga, Merci la vie, and maybe even Go Trabi Go or probably a dozen others I haven't seen. Still, "Mediterraneo" might give you about 90 minutes of light-weight entertainment; so do watch it if it's raining and you're feeling lazy and have nothing better to do. But don't expect a great classical movie that changes your life.
Review of Mediterraneo
