- Actors: Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Kevork Malikyan, George Murcell, Helen Mirren
- Directors: James Dearden
- Classification: 15
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00008T7HS
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,671 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
I have watched the movie Pascali's Island. It is a brilliant story and all 3 main actors play a real interesting parts. I only wish why don't they released the movie on DVD. The film is well made with some beautiful shots of scenery of Rhodes island and Syme island. maybe they should released it on Blu-ray which would be better.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
It has been many years since I have watched this film but the impression which it left me all those years ago was of a superbly crafted, delicious and atmospheric period drama, sensuous and luxuriant. From memory, it did not do well at the box office which is perhaps more of a comment on the movie going public than on the film itself.Pascali's Island [1988]
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
This is the story of a man whose "god" forgot him.
4 Dec 1998
In a finely-crafted and beautifully filmed story, three people meet who are engaged in deceptions of differents sorts. Each one is acting in secret, yet all three find themselves thrust into the very center of their deceptions by ironic twists. Each fences with the other romantically, yet the most cynical actually fall in love. Excellent performances by Kingsley, Charles Dance and Helen Mirren, three of England's most talented and versatile actors. Exotic scenery sets the stage for a variety of passions, schemes and deceits. Mirren and Dance are spectacular in the love scenes especially, but Ben Kingsley steals the movie, his dark eyes mirroring his dwindling hope in his sultan's dying world and his hopeless love for an untouchable, unreachable foreigner.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
excellent portrait of a time and place
9 July 2003
The year is 1908, the place is a small island in the Aegean sea. Ben Kingsley shines in "Pascali's Island", a subtle tale of fear and betrayal in uncertain, changing times. The violent ending, although hinted at throughout the film, will jar you since the tone till then has been guardedly genteel.
A fine performance is turned in by Helen Mirren, playing the Austrian painter Lydia, a woman in her 30s whom Pascali has loved from a distance for years. He is tormented by her love affair with an English archeologist as events spin toward an inevitable disastrous conclusion.
The clear, bright Aegean ocean reflecting the brilliant blue sky above makes a gorgeous scenic backdrop for the film. The ocean is seen from many interesting camera angles through windows and doorways of buildings, down from stone steps, and straight on as a large sailboat glides across it. The elemental sunshine and the open, calm sea serve as a counterpoint to the scheming people and their sinister secrets.
Highly recommended!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I loved this movie!
29 Mar 2001
I love movies where the location is like another character (characters even) within the story.
This is a wonderful insight into another time and another place. With the preludes of war setting a benignly precarious backdrop intriguing characters deploy their motives in an enchanting dance of ulteriors and schemes.
The psychologies at work in this story are delightful to behold, the viewer is captivated and enthralled from the beginning!
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