![]() Said Lieutenant is a handsome, more-solemn-than-dashing fellow named Ismail Veli ( Michiel Huisman), who meets plucky American heroine Lillie ( Hera Hilmar) just as she’s stepping off a ship, from which she’s just seen the most breathtaking view of a CGI period Istanbul you could ever imagine. ![]() In the case of the movie, it’s the former. The simple title has an air of mystery too it, whether you understand “Ottoman” to refer to a member of a disbanded empire or to a padded stool. Like “The English Patient,” “The Ottoman Lieutenant” is a tale of war and of love torn apart by war. ![]() It is probably no accident that the title of this film uses a verbal pattern identical to that of “ The English Patient,” that is, definite article, adjective (a specific kind of adjective, actually-a demonym), descriptive noun. ![]()
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