The English Patient
The English Patient tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.
6 February 1951, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK
9 March 1964, Paris, France
5 April 1973, Salford, England, UK
10 September 1960, Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK
February1971, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15 September 1945, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
11 March 1968, England, UK
3 September 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
1971, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
7 August 1958, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK
8 May 1968, Hannover, Germany
22 November 1949, England, UK
29 November 1935, Scotland, UK
30 January 1951, UK
28 October 1968, London, England, UK
22 December 1962, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
22 July 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
10 June 1941, Berlin, Germany
1968, Berlin, Germany
January 06, 2014
It's an ambitious film and director Anthony Minghella's skill lies equally in his screenplay, which delivers explanation only in fragments but keeps us involved for what is an epic running time.
January 07, 2014
Could this possibly be the Casablanca of the late 20th century?
February 24, 2013
With its fine acting, sumptuous visuals and levels of intrigue, The English Patient boasts the elements of something greater than a love story. Too bad it devotes them to something less than a great love story.
January 06, 2014
As a love story and an adventure story, The English Patient is the fastest, most powerful two hours and 40 minutes this year. It's terrific.
June 04, 2015
It is, after all, quite a lot of movie, two hours and 42 minutes' worth, and the more movie you have, the greater the chances that not all of it will work equally well.
February 22, 2015
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.
January 06, 2014
It's the sort of solemn production that is often mentioned as an Academy Award contender.This says less about the quality of the film than it does about its self-consciously lofty tone and its sense of self-importance.
February 22, 2015
Anthony Minghella believes in ghosts -- and, at his best, makes believers out of viewers, too.
January 06, 2014
The English Patient's considerable pleasures are chiefly aesthetic, not emotional.
January 06, 2014
The film is a smashing success on its own terms, though as a transcendent love story it lacks the firm foundation in human reality that characterizes Lars Von Trier's superior Breaking the Waves.
January 06, 2014
The English Patient is a modern movie that breathes vivid new life into the cliches of old-fashioned motion pictures, recalling a time when movies were graceful, complex and leisurely.
January 06, 2014
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.
