Rated or Dated: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Who do we forgive in times of war? Louis de Bernières’ 1994 novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, has some suggestions, but are they the same as John Madden’s 2001 imagining of it? Still, never mind the morals, what about the accents? And can Nicolas Cage ever laugh like a normal person? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Borgiano!
0:08.1	A Benvenuta a standard issue,
0:11.3	Mikiamo Hannah-Don Libby, a O and GCSC in Italian.
0:16.4	Well, not in Greek, so here goes.
0:20.6	Solo accompaniedo de Mickey Noonan, chaubella.
0:24.9	Ola.
0:28.3	She'll have done a responsibility of the film that Ogie, Jen offered.
0:32.0	I mean, I was going to say Ola as well, and Penelope Cruz probably does in this film, so, you know, why not?
0:38.5	Mamming, Kay, not. Mamming Kay Jen, a mammingay.
0:42.0	A manningay is this wonderful, it's a Sicilian word, it's kind of universally.
0:49.6	It means penis.
0:51.0	It also means like you dick in that way.
0:53.5	But it also means wow and lots of other things, just the Italians to use the word
0:59.4	penis.
0:59.7	And wow, yeah.
1:01.4	I think I'll understand it as wow.
1:05.8	This week we watched carnival of accents, some of them good, some of them bad, some of them Spanish and some of them Nicholas Cage.
1:13.5	2001's Captain Corelli's Mandolin, directed by John Madden.
1:20.1	It's based obviously on the much-beloved novel by Louis de Bernier.
1:25.0	DeBernier didn't have much time for Sean Slovo's adaptation of which he said
1:29.6	it would be impossible for a parent to be happy about its baby's ears being put on backwards.
1:36.0	Fair.
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