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Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Starring: Ben Kingsley, Mira Sorvino
  • Summary: In a sun-drenched Italian villa where the madness of love has long been forbidden, one woman's passion is about to upend reason, bend genders and take every heart in the house prisoner. (Paramount Classics)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 28
  2. Negative: 4 out of 28
  1. 100
    Supple, eloquent and enchanting.
  2. 80
    This intelligent, breezy romantic comedy sings a love song to theater. Plus, there's a hunky lug and Mira Sorvino in drag.
  3. 60
    Indeed, a triumph of love: love of performance, love of joy, and, above all else, love of love itself.
  4. Reviewed by: Beth Pinsker
    38
    Sorvino can't pass for a man, but that's beyond the point in this rarefied situation. She's beautiful and she can usually act, but here the only convincing thing she projects is fatigue from running around the garden all day.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Negative: 2 out of 5

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