Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

A modern-day classic:

The English Patient ranks among the finest pieces of cinematography in modern-day film. The scenery is breathtaking and captures the haunting isolation of desert terrain. The music is as captivating as the storyline because it reaches deep within the viewer's soul recreating the sense of joy, bliss, and anguish that the characters experience within the viewer's heart as well. This is a story of love which exemplifies quite a few of the many forms it can take. The relationship between the nurse and her... more info

Beautiful, Absolutely Beautiful:

I'm not really sure why this movie's being panned as severely as it is. Maybe the dense plot put off those looking for an action epic. Maybe the passionate but ultimately destructive relationship put off those looking for a formulaic happy-ending fluff romance. Maybe these people just don't like thinking during movies, because this movie doesn't lay everything out for you and you have to work to figure out character motivations, plot, symbolism, etc. But to me, all those things that this movie isn't only... more info

PASSION SWEPT UNDER BY THE CHANGING WINDS OF WAR:

Based on Michael Ondaatje's sweeping WWII novel, "The English Patient" is the story of a young Allied nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche) who finds herself alone in an abandoned Italian monastery and tending to a mysterious burn victim (Ralph Fiennes). Like David Lean's Dr. Zhivago, this mystical and epic film is told through a series of flash backs integrated with a subplot that is supposedly taking place in the present. During the flash backs we learn of the tragic circumstances that have led to the current... more info

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