The English Patient R
In love, there are no boundaries.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Miramax Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe & Kristin Scott Thomas | |
| Performer: | Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Kevin Whately & Jürgen Prochnow | |
| Directed by | Anthony Minghella | |
| Edited by | Walter Murch | |
| Screenplay by | Anthony Minghella | |
| Composition by | Gabriel Yared | |
| Story by | Michael Ondaatje | |
| Produced by | Saul Zaentz | |
| Director of Photography: | John Seale | |
| Executive Production by | Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Cinematography: John Seale
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Director: Anthony Minghella
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Original Score: Gabriel Yared
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1996 -
Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Binoche
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/4 --
It took a filmmaker with Anthony Minghella's vision to even attempt an adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. And it took a filmmaker with Minghella's talent to pull it off.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's a tragically lovely story about the cruel devastation of selfish and ungoverned love. It's also one of the best movies in a long, long time.
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AV Club
Rating: 4/4 --
Minghella doesn't so much adapt the novel as he translates it wondrously to a different medium, with its mysteries and passions intact.
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Tulsa World
...Respectable, intelligent....With its exotic, tapestry-like backgrounds, this is a picture of resplendently textured, sensuous surfaces...
Variety
Its wit, sophistication and artistry never are at odds with the fundamental pull of a powerful love story that out-Zhivagos Doctor Zhivago because it respects love's mysteries, admits it doesn't know the heart's boundaries.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Could this possibly be the Casablanca of the late 20th century?
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Seattle Times
This is a radical adaptation which transposes, re-assembles and deletes key elements of the novel to achieve a pure cinematic reinvent ion that is admirably adroit - and as distinctive a work of art as the book remains in its own right.
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Irish Times
Product Description:
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 (Ralph Fiennes), whose torrid affair with a colleague's wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) 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 (Juliette Binoche, who won an Oscar for the role) serves as a framing device for his intriguing story. Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella directs this film that is at once incredibly modern and a well-crafted throwback to classic Hollywood epics of yesteryear.
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Product Info
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