The Triumph of Love Movie Review:


Triumph of Love is a silly comedy that takes place in the 18th century about a beautiful Princess (Mira Sorvino) who falls in love with her sworn enemy Agis (Jay Rodan). She sits on the throne stolen long ago by her deceased father.

The rightful heir is Agis who was born in prison then smuggled out and raised in secret exile by the headstrong philosopher Hemocrates (Ben Kingsley) and his sister Leontine (Fiona Shaw).

They live now in a huge Italian villa where most of the movie takes place.

After seeing him naked near a lake, the Princess falls madly for Agis and decides to go to his mansion in disguise as a man and win him over. She her lady-in-waiting Corinne (Rachael Stirling) pretend they are two young lads. The Princess acts if she is a traveling philosophy student Phocion and Corinne becomes his valet Hermidas.

Upon her arrival at Agis’ estate, the Princess bribes the henchmen Arlequin (Ignazio Oliva) the gardner (Luis Moteni) to help her gain access to the villa.

Once that is accomplished, the Princess seduces Agis, Hemocrates and Leonitne to break their anti-romantic defenses and win the love of Agis. She uses her abundant charm and lots of deception to appeal to each one’s very different desires.

In the beginning her plan works perfectly but soon after it unravels as one by one they discover they have been played with by an imposter.

All the while for some odd reason in the movie, you see every once in a while an audience dressed in modern clothing watching the story unfold.

Since director Clare Peploe gives you the feeling that you are watching a play and not a film there is really no reason for these strange audience sequences.

Triumph of Love’s main problem is that it’s not that funny. Mira puts on an English accent and seems to have a lot of pleasurable with her part but that’s not enough to save this bland film.

Furthermore, the main cast has very little chemistry between them which doesn’t help to get you to pay attention.

The film is also very talky with dialogue that seems like somebody’s version of old English. If you like that sort of thing then you might find this film somewhat entertaining.

For the rest of you, Triumph of Love will either put you to sleep or drive you nuts with its uninviting eccentricities.

Gil Benzeevi

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