The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)
Miramax Home Entertainment - Miramax Home Entertainment
Release date: 2004-06-29
DVD
Director:Anthony Minghella
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews
Adult Situations, Brief Nudity, Color, Compassionate, Drama, English, Feature, Feature Film-drama, Haunted By the Past, High Production Values, Infidelity, Lavish, Meditative, Melancholy, Movie, Passionate, Period Film, Questionable for Children, Romance, Romantic Adventure
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The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)
Date undefinedI cannot believe all these interminable reviews. Do these people actually think anyone has time to read their massive missives?
Here's the thing, buy the DVD. Watch it lots of times. I've seen it maybe 50 times and just the last time I saw it did I catch the last thing that Katherine wrote in Almasys' Herodotus as she died.
And then I noticed Minghella's shot after Almasy jumps from the train, how he's framed against the blue sky as the music swells and then there's Fiennes fierce face.
Every time I see it, I catch something new, there's so much going on that it's like a piece of music for me, it keeps revealing itself. Maybe that was Minghella's gift.
I love this movie slavishly, the way some love Casablanca or Star Wars.
The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)
Date undefined"The English Patient" is a curate's egg among the Academy Awards. It's an artistically beautiful,sensual film though at times it's slow and bogs down. It has a talented ensemble cast,and lush settings in the North African desert and the Tuscan countryside.
A nurse,Hana (Juliette Binoche) finds a terribly burnt Hungarian nobleman,Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) At the same time,she is caring for a thumbless artist,Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe),and has met a handsome Sikh (Naveen Andrews) While she reveals Renaissance murals, she also gradually reveals connections among the men she cares for. On a mapmaking expedition,Almasy fell for a beautiful married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas,with Colin Firth as her husband) They carried on a brief,passionate affair. Like a mirage,it faded. Their affair was an oasis for their hearts. Soon, they are stranded in the desert. She is dying; he looks for help.
"The English Patient" shows the consequences of marital betrayal--not only does Almasy lead a woman to betray her husband (and he his friend&colleague),he also betrays his country by collaborating with the Germans. It comes at a great personal cost. He is horribly disfigured,his body reflecting his soul. His adultery isn't rewarded. Caravaggio realizes,to his horror,that Almasy's actions led to him being tortured by a German commandant (Jurgen Prochnow)
"The English Patient" is a masterpiece in its own way. It has spectacular settings, wonderful acting. In other ways,it's bland and forgettable. It's a Lifetime channel for women movie in Northern Africa and Tuscany.
The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)
Date undefinedIt is an interesting film, but not more than that. What does it shows? That the English were particularly sectarian during WW2 on the African front. Nothing new under the sun. Anyone who had a slightly different name or a slightly surprising or uncommon attitude was at once considered as a spy unworthy of any trust. This created myriads or even legions of misunderstandings and human errors along with cruelty, barbaric acts, violence, etc. The only interest of this film is the technical brilliance in the use of flashbacks that only happen in the head of this English patient who plays the loss of his memory to protect himself against his own name and his own ascendants. Yet his survival is not possible and the nurse who is looking after him is little by little led to being convinced by him that she has to overdose him with morphine, which she does. The sentimental elements along the way for the nurse or the Sikh bomb and mine technician are there only to provide a present time line onto which the flashbacks can be woven and attached. The acting is absolutely outstanding, even if the story is rather trite.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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