A good film, but the best ever...please!!

Rating: 8/10 (1 October 1998)

The English Patient is an excellent film. Most movies with Juliette Binoche cannot help but be watchable. However, it is overlong, a touch sentimental and some of the stereotypical "Englishness" just didn't ring true.
As a 'period piece' in the EM Forester mode(Room with a view' etc.) it is clearly a more substantial piece of cinema than these, but not really deserving of its hype.
8 out of 10, mainly because it looks so good!