Triumph of Love (2002)
46 %
Reviews Counted: 68 Fresh: 31 Rotten:37 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
Not as charming as it could have been, Triumph of Love plays too broadly and amounts to little more than a trifle.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 17, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $345,851
Synopsis: Mira Sorvino plays a cross-dressing princess who falls madly in love with a young, inexperienced scholar in this adaptation of the 18th Century Marivaux play. His rationalist philosopher guardian Hemocrates (Ben Kingsley) has raised handsome Agis (Jay Rodan) to hate women, so the... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Jay Rodan, Ben Kingsley, Fiona Shaw, Rachael Stirling
Director: Clare Peploe
Screenwriter: Clare Peploe, Marilyn Goldin, Bernardo Bertolucci
Composer: Jason Osborn
Screenwriter: Clare Peploe, Marilyn Goldin, Bernardo Bertolucci
Composer: Jason Osborn
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Reviews
I was periodically put off by a certain self-consciousness of delivery.
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12/07/07
Top Critic
The characters jabber away, the premise becomes ever more improbable, and you may well find yourself drifting to sleep.
03/01/07
This gender-bending romp is enjoyably witty, even if it feels rather long and pointless.
07/19/04
It is the audience who will feel duped even more than the characters in the film.
02/01/04
Failed experiments are in general very educational, but that doesn’t mean that you have to see it.
01/06/04
Sorvino, Stirling and Rodan are fine as the youth contingent, but the film belongs to Kingsley and Shaw.
01/06/04
...the close-to-two-hour running time stretches this decidedly thin premise much further than it has any right to.
05/24/03
The Triumph of Love is, indeed, a triumph of love: love of performance, love of joy, and, above all else, love of love itself.
12/08/02
A frivolous flutter through the art of seduction, Triumph of Love is a visually sumptuous costumer set in exquisite gardens and villas in Tuscany. Worth seeing for its gorgeous setting alone, this lively farce about politics, position and passion allows
09/22/02
...unspeakably, unbearably dull, featuring reams of flatly delivered dialogue and a heroine who comes across as both shallow and dim-witted.
06/11/02
A boring masquerade ball where normally good actors, even Kingsley, are made to look bad.
06/07/02
For this sort of thing to work, we need agile performers, but the proficient, dull Sorvino has no light touch, and Rodan is out of his league.
06/06/02
The characters in Triumph of Love are trifles, so that the farcical situation, which depends on the audience buying quick changes of heart -- like falling in love in an instant -- has no resonance.
05/24/02
Top Critic
Clare Peploe's airless movie adaptation could use a little American Pie-like irreverence.
05/24/02
Sorvino is delightful in the central role. She nearly glows with enthusiasm, sensuality and a conniving wit.
05/17/02
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