Production Year: 1996 - Drama - Director: Anthony Minghella - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jurgen Prochnow, Lusa Repo-Martell, Hichem Rostom, Peter Ruhring, Sebastian Schipper, Thoraya Sehill, Sebastian Sherlock, Anthony Smee, Gregor Truter, Rim Turki, Torri Higginson, Philip Whitchurch, Raymond Coulthard, Nino Castelnuovo, Samy Azaiez, Sondess Belhassen, Habib Chetoui, Phillipa Day, Jason Done, Fritz Eggert, Jrgen Prochnow, Michael Ferguson, Abdellatif Hamrouni, Geordie Johnson, Paul Kant, Dominic Mafham, Sonia Mankai, Salah Miled, Roger Morlidge, Amanda Walker, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Kevin Whately, Clive Merrison, Lee Ross, Julian Wadham, Sebastian Rudolph more
Advantages: Timeless Love story, a classic Disadvantages: None
...a man and a woman. The plane is then abruptly shot to the ground by Germans and it is at this point that you first acquaint yourself with the film’s namesake “The English Patient”. Horrifically burnt and unable to remember much at all, he is given that name, as he is unknown.
The film swings back and forth from the late 1930’s to 1945 Italy, a case of the ugly burnt remains of a man and the handsome one he once was, which ...
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Advantages: star studded cast and an excellent story line Disadvantages: time and full attention required
...effort to stick it in the VCR, until an ill day off school, in which I learned that I owned one of the most tremendous film of love and betrayal ever made.
It is set in the North African desert during the Second World War. Count Almasy is a desert explorer on an expedition like many others, or so he thought. That is until Geoffrey Clifton and his beautiful wife, Katherine join him on a trip that would change his life forever. Almasy is unable to ...
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Advantages: Great performances, script, music and beautifully shot Disadvantages: Maybe a bit on the long side for some
...Willem Dafoe is set at the end of the Second World War where Count Almasy (Fiennes) is picked up by African tribes people after being shot down in an aircraft. He is then put into the care of the Allies and is put in the care of a Canadian nurse (Binnoche). They both stay in an old abandoned church, while Almasy lives out his few remaining days remembering the all too murky past.
Count Almasy is a Hungarian and member of the International Cartographers ...
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...thing I'm afraid!
Someone gave me the video one Christmas and relunctantly I sat down to watch it and was totally surprised! The film has now become my all-time favourite flick!
The opening scene has the voice of Hungarian folk singer Marta Sebestyn
singing about love as a paintbrush paints an image from the 'Cave Of
Swimmers'. The image of the swimmer gradually turns into a shadow folding
over sand dunes in Africa and then finally into the ...
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Advantages: none Disadvantages: it's a waste of good film
...got was eternal tedium. The story was thin drivel, the 'acting' was executed by people determined to give it their very least effort and the time just went on and on and on.
It won Oscars, it was lauded by the critics - were they on drugs? How much were they paid? Maybe I was missing the point and at the end it would become clear why everyone had raved about it so much. So I wasted an entire afternoon. It didn't get better, if anything, it got ...
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Advantages: The photography. Disadvantages: ¿The end?. No
...is that this film of the ninety has that aroma of the classic fifty and forty cinema without for that reason lacks an own personality that defines it. History is magnificent, is a history of impossible love, fight and jealousy that is not new but if that this excellently treated, but emphasizes without a doubt in my opinion the interpretations, specially those of Finnes that interprets to the patient and the one of Binoche, that nurse who this tired ...
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Advantages: Great acting, beatiful cinematography Disadvantages: None
The English Patient is an adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel of the same name.
Set during WW2, it tells the story of Count Almasy (Ralph Fienns) who is found badly burned in the Sahara desert. He is moved to Tuscany and Hana (Juliette Binoche), a Canadian nurse, ends up taking care of him in an old italian monastery. Through flashbacks, we learn what happened to Almasy. He was in Cairo when he met Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), she ...
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...of Arabia, you will love The English Patient.
The music mixed with the beautiful landscapes brings back the good old fashioned background for a love story. And that's what this film is: a pure love story. But for those of you who think that this means it's boring, it is not. This film was nominated for nine oscars, including best film and best soundtrack. Ralph Fiennes plays the role of the pilot, he falls in love with Anna, played by Kirsten-Scott ...
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This film is one of the best you could ever watch! Starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristen Scott Thomas, and Colin Firth, the English Patient is the story of two people's love, that will leave you weeping along the way.
A man have become badly burnt, now without a face, nor a name, he is named 'The English Patient'. Very near death, a nurse takes care of him, and his memory begins to return. About his painstaking love for ...
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...One can't complain about the places and sights it shows us. On one level it's a very dramatic love story for the hopelessly romantic, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you're in the mood you can become engrossed with a box of tissues on your lap. Preparing a cup of black tea infused with fresh mint leaves to sip as you watch may add to the exoticism. If this is too much trouble you can throw a tea bag (Tazo) into a mug with boiling water.
The ...
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Confusing Review ofThe English Patient (DVD)by
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Advantages: Well produced, conveys time jumps well. Disadvantages: Very deep film, complicated.
The English patient is a story of love and war built up from loads of different angles. After studying the book for A level....and finding it far too confusing....I decided to hire out the videa to see if it would guide me towards the meaning of the film. Unbelievably iy did!!! Although parts if the film were still a little confusing in places it was still very much undertandable. The film was very cleverly produced conveying well the time jumps the ...
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