The English Patient
A Hungarian map maker who was mapping the Sahara as part of a Royal Geographical Society archaeological and surveying expedition in Egypt and Libya with finds love when a couple decides to join in his expedition.Upon learning of his affair the husband of the woman decides to stage a murder-suicide which left him dead, his wife burnt and the map maker injured.
15 September 1945, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
28 October 1936, Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
3 September 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
1970, Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
1974, UK
10 June 1941, Berlin, Germany
8 May 1968, Hannover, Germany
3 April 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 March 1968, England, UK
1971, Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
28 October 1968, London, England, UK
24 May 1960, Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK
7 August 1958, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK
17 January 1969, London, England, UK
1968, Berlin, Germany
30 January 1951, UK
9 March 1964, Paris, France
February1971, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10 July 1942, Bremerhaven, Germany
6 February 1951, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK
5 April 1973, Salford, England, UK
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.
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
The English Patient's considerable pleasures are chiefly aesthetic, not emotional.
February 22, 2015
Anthony Minghella believes in ghosts -- and, at his best, makes believers out of viewers, too.
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.
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.
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 07, 2014
Could this possibly be the Casablanca of the late 20th century?
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 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 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.
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.
