"A deep melancholy, beautifully orchestrated by Minghella and his cast"

Rating: 7/10 (24 February 2006)

Winner of an astonishing 9 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress, The English Patient was the finest motion picture of 1996, a film of a grand and epic scale, with beautiful scenes, a melancholic musical score and a gripping storyline. Antony Minghella's faithful adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a badly burned pilot, only identified as 'The English Patient', who is found and taken care of by Academy Award Winner Juliette Binoche in an old monastery in rural Italy during the close of World War II, while he has flashbacks of a passionate affair.
7.3/10
"A memorable and beautiful film"
A very slow burning film