Out of each of these uprooted characters are spun stories of love, loyalty and betrayal.
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01/29/08
The English Patient (1996)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:14
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Though it suffers from excessive length and ambition, director Minghella's adaptation of the Michael Ondaatje novel is complex, powerful, and moving.
Runtime: 2 hrs 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Set during World War II, this film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel concerns a horribly scarred, amnesiac mapmaker (Ralph Fiennes) who is found by Bedouins in the desert and then transported... [More]
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe
Director: Anthony Minghella
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Reviews for The English Patient
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Top CriticThe cast is superb: Binoche, with her thin, seraphic smile; Scott Thomas, aware of the spell she casts but not flaunting it; Fiennes, especially, radiating sexy mystery, threat shrouded in hauteur. Doom and drive rarely have so much stately star quality.
01/29/08
Top CriticA respectable, intelligent but less than stirring adaptation of an imposingly dense and layered novel.
01/29/08
Top CriticThis is the real thing, and real things don't come along very often, so you'd better snap them up when they do.
02/10/07
Top CriticFor all the film's effectiveness as a love story, I often felt I was being hurried through a busy itinerary.
02/05/07
Top CriticThe result is completely intoxicating.
02/05/07
Top CriticTorrid, witty, passionate and intelligent.
06/18/02
Top CriticGet ready for the great romance of the movie year.
05/12/01
Top CriticThe English Patient captivates as only the grandest and most consuming passions can.
02/14/01
Top CriticThis is a movie to lose yourself in.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe English Patient, the superb new film by Anthony Minghella, is that rarest of things: a film based on a great contemporary novel.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis is one of the year's most unabashed and powerful love stories, using flawless performances, intelligent dialogue, crisp camera work, and loaded glances to attain a level of eroticism and emotional connection that many similar films miss.
01/01/00
Top CriticA stunning feat of literary adaptation as well as a purely cinematic triumph.
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This poetic, evocative film version of the famous novel by Michael Ondaatje circles down through layers of mystery until all of the puzzles in the story have been solved, and only the great wound of a doomed love remains.
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