See this at the Cinema

Rating: 7/10 (22 December 2003)

One of the best Oscar 'Best Pictures' of recent times. This is a film that is best appreciated at the theatre. The small screen cannot do justice to the cinematography. The film really consists of two stories. The main story is told in flashback as the English Patient spends the last few days of the war (and his life) in a bombed out Italian villa. This is the story of the affair between Count Laszlo de Almásy (Fiennes) and Katharine Clifton (Scott Thomas). There is certainly chemistry between the leads and Katharine isn't the usual one dimensional Hollywood female role.
The other story between Hanna (Binoche) and Kip Singh is certainly not as convincing. Willem Dafoe is the glue between the stories who wants to find out whether the English Patient is Almásy. Sorry to harp on, but the real star of the film is the cinematographer and if this didn't win that award from the Academy I'd be amazed.