The English Muddle...

Rating: 1/10 (3 April 2000)

What a boring!!!! A boring, sumptuosus, icy melò that i've hated. I think the actors are good (special mention to Kristin Scott Thomas) but the entire movie is an astute fake masterpiece. We've got all the ingredients: a torrid adulterine love affair, the desert, the Second World War, the Tuscany country and the charming Egypt, the spyes, the memories, a diary... everything you need to create a kolossal and most of all an Academy Award winner. "The English Patient" is not the "Lawrence of Arabia" of 90's, but only an insufferable and affected movie (like every Minghella movie...). I gave it 1!!!