1991 · comedy · drama · war
Mediterraneo
Directed by Gabriele Salvatores1h 36m1991
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
Our read: Mediterraneo (1991) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · war entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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