Based on the novel of the same name by Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin is an epic weepie. Take a whole boxfull of tissues. It is set on the Greek island of Cephalonia, which is ...

One Italian officer, Captain Corelli, adopts an attitude of mutual co-existence with the Greeks and engages in such activities as music festivals and courting the daughter of a local doctor.

But the fundamental failure of the movie is this: the film-makers are determined to turn Captain Corelli's Mandolin into a romantic story about a woman torn between two men, and it just won't work ...