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The English Patient, 1996

The English Patient

English, German, Italian, Arabic

USA, UK

Rating:7.3
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Profile of The English Patient

The English Patient can be described as bittersweet, emotional, and gloomy. The plot revolves around memory loss, doctors and patients, and tragic love. The main genres are drama, romance, and period. In terms of style, The English Patient is epic and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a monastery, in a convent, and in a battlezone. The English Patient is located in Italy and Africa. It takes place during World War 2. The movie has received attention for being a modern classic, an Oscar winner, and a blockbuster. The English Patient is well suited for a date night. Note that it involves violent content.

Summary of The English Patient

THE ENGLISH PATIENT is an epic, sweeping adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's richly layered, WWII-era novel chronicling two periods in the life of European explorer Count Laszlo Almasy, whose torrid affair with a colleague's wife is countered by the beginning of the war, allegations of Nazi sympathies, and disfiguring injuries. The patient's stay at the ruins of an Italian monastery under the care of an emotionally injured French-Canadian nurse serves as a framing device for his intriguing story.

Details

Language: English, German, Italian, Arabic
Country: USA, UK
Release date: 6 November 1996
Runtime: 162 min
Awards: Academy Awards

Awards

Awarded Best Cinematography at the 1996 Academy Awards
Anthony Minghella for Best Director at the 1996 Academy Awards
Gabriel Yared for Best Original Score at the 1996 Academy Awards
Awarded Best Picture at the 1996 Academy Awards
Juliette Binoche for Best Supporting Actress at the 1996 Academy Awards

Cast and Crew

Ralph Fiennes as Count Laszlo de Almásy in The English Patient
Ralph Fiennes

as Count Laszlo de Almásy

Juliette Binoche as Hana in The English Patient
Juliette Binoche

as Hana

Kristin Scott Thomas as Katharine Clifton in The English Patient
Kristin Scott Thomas

as Katharine Clifton

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Critics Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle
A mesmerizing film that is the most stunning, tempestuous love story in a decade or two of movie making.
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  • by: Peter Stack
Salon.com
Minghella, by brilliantly editing the romantic scenes down to a few jagged, archetypal moments, captures something of the sacred whirlwind.
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  • by: Gary Kamiya

Users Reviews

This movie is GREAT... if you need to get some sleep. Its 161 minutes of nothing happening. Zzzzzzzz.
  • 23.March.2010
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  • by: xylenz
  • xylenz rated this movie0/10
Who knew Naveen Andrews, Sayid from Lost, was in this movie? I liked the movie, good acting and a good story, but the flashbacks seemed unconnected. Were the flashbacks just thoughts of Ralph Fiennes, Count Laszlo, or was he telling his story to...
  • 26.April.2009
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  • by: stantheman198
  • stantheman198 rated this movie6/10Okay
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