Volume 43, Number 5 · March 21, 1996
The Postman Always Rings Twice
By Michael Wood
The Postman (II Postino)
a film directed by Michael Radford
Miramax Films
The Postman
by Antonio Skármeta, translated by Katherine Silver
Miramax Books/Hyperion,, 118 pp., $9.95
Many of those who saw The Postman (Il Postino) last fall went back to see it again. They knew it was special, but they thought it was quiet, away from the movie mainstream, like a little beach you don't imagine tourists will flock to. Now that the film has received five Oscar nominations, and not minor ones—best picture, best actor, best director, best score, best adapted screenplay—it remains special, but we have to rethink the rest. This is after all an Italian-speaking film with English subtitles. The mainstream is not where we thought it was, and the beach is full of people.
Review, 1510 words
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