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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