A young Cambridge student gets involved with a budding photographer in the years before WWII. Their relationship gets severed as he heads to Spain to fight fascism. They are later reunited when she puts her life on the line to save him.
John Duigan helmed this sexy film starring Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron as Gilda, a flighty-but-charming socialite who finds her true match in Guy (Stuart Townsend), an intellectual Irishman who wants to battle in the Spanish Civil War. Guy convinces Mia (Penélope Cruz), Gilda’s confidante, to join him in Spain. But Gilda has other plans that could endanger her life more than supporting the war.
“There’s plenty of eye candy — gorgeous scenery, gorgeous costumes, gorgeous people — to keep the viewer from minding (too much) the Olympic leaps of faith required to invest in the film’s plot.” – Washington Post
Set between 1921 and 1944.
Starring
Rated R
Note: The plot is silly, but you may enjoy the love story and the period costumes. Viewers were more forgiving than critics.