The most wonderful movie that I have ever seen. This is Anthony Minguella's best movie so far.

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2002)

The English Patient is perfect as well as the cast. Some reasons why it's so great are:
1. Ralph Fiennes is superb as Count Almasy (the English patient)
2. The French actress Juliette Binoche is beautiful as Hana
3. Kristin Scott-Thomas shines on screen as Catherine
4. Colin Firth plays a good small part as the husband of Catherine and also Willem Dafoe as David
The film is set during the WWII.
This is a story about love and how far it can go and ruin your life, but it's also about the wonderful moments you can share together.
This movie tells the story of the forbidden love between Count Almasy and Catherine. They met whilst a meeting between establish Englishmen who want to stop the Germans. Love begins when they rest by themselves in a desert. Their love is beautiful but it's very fragile, however she is married.... Their love is too great to forget each other. After this beautiful love, Catherine's husband finds out about their love and wants to murder Count Almasy.
He flies his plane towards him, but Catherine's husband gets killed instead. Catherine was also in the plane, she survives from it and the Count helps her to go to a cave. He searches for help, but then they find out that he is a German spy. They lock him up and he has to travel away, but he kills someone on the train and he escapes. Of course he goes back to the cave, but Catherine has died. He takes the plane and he wants to go to England where she wanted to be buried, which was her last wish. The plane crashed, and he's hurt badly.
He goes to a hospital, and the nurse who has a special attention for him is Hana. She knows that he will die soon and she decides to stop the long trip for him and she goes with him to a cloister. She reads his diary and then they get a new habitant, David who has known him. But he is not sure if it is Count Almasy, because his face is burned and he tells that he doesn't remember his name. But through the diary readings, he becomes sure that he is Count Almasy. At the end they are sure that it is him, because he says it, and dies minutes later
He is again with his great love, Catherine...
It is maybe a difficult story, with a lot of flashbacks, but it's a movie that really moves you!
Ralph Fiennes was the best actor, he gave the best performance in this movie!
Also Juliette Binoche was wonderful, but in my opinion Lauren Bacall deserved the Academy Award, but Binoche deserves it as well.
The English patient is the nickname for Count Almasy, because he doesn't remember his name.
Rating: 10/10 or **** out of ****
The greatest film in 25 years.