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	The English Patient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje which deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa.
		In 1996, it was made into a film by the same title by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche and Naveen Andrews.
		The English Patient is in part a sequel to Ondaatje's earlier work In the Skin of a Lion; the characters of Hana and Caravaggio reappear from the earlier novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_English_Patient (244 words)

	The English Patient (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The English Patient is a 1996 film adaptation of the novel by Michael Ondaatje.
		The English Patient probes the nature of ownership while remaining deeply ambivalent to its implications.
		The English Patient is an assemblage of methodically-crafted fragments of memory recalled by Almásy after being burnt in the plane crash of the opening sequence.
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	DIAGNOSING THE ENGLISH PATIENT:
		I shall try to explain many apparently unrelated things, such as why the patient was a burn victim, the conditions of his loving, including why he makes love to a corpse, the meaning of the Gyges story, the role of the desert expanse, and why all the characters forgive the English patient.
		Caravaggio suspects the patient is the spy whose betrayals led to Caravaggio’s capture, torture, and permanent disfigurement by the Nazis.
		In the film, the desert is adoringly photographed, as though it were a lover’s body, with lean ribs, thickening plateaus, spread dunes, hidden recesses and caves which hide water.
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	SPLICED: "The English Patient" interviews
		But some, like English screenwriter and director Anthony Minghella, might be driven to find a way to do the book justice as he was with his film "The English Patient," adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje.
		The film opens with a peaceful, fluid shot of the desert from the air that looks so soft and smooth it at first seems to be a woman's back.
		Starring Ralph Finnes as the patient, Juliette Binoche as his nurse and, in her most powerful and emotional performance to date, Kristin Scott Thomas as his lover, "The English Patient" has plenty of candidates for acting nominations too, but it is certain to garner a nod for Minghella's screenplay, about which he is very modest.
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	The English Patient
		We soon learn that he's not English at all; he's the Hungarian Count Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), and he was a cartographer in the employ of the British government.
		Meanwhile (at least in terms of screen time), Hana is falling in love, not with her patient, but with Kip (Naveen Andrews) a Sikh bomb disposal expert who enters her life by shooing her away from the monastery's piano -- he fears the Germans have mined it, and he's right.
		Film editor Walter Murch (instrumental in the editing and sound design of Apocalypse Now) doubtless deserves special praise for his world-class technique -- Minghella acknowledges that the film's mostly seamless feat of flitting over and over again from setting to setting was largely conceived and achieved in the cutting room.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/englishp.html (929 words)

	Boston Review: Alan Stone on The English Patient (film review)
		That is true of many great films: The film medium conveys better the grandeur of Rome than the glory of Greece, and the camera is and should be the star.
		The film contrasts the browns of the desert with the greens of Northern Italy, the scarified face of the burned English patient with the handsome profile of the Count.
		Hana comes to love the English patient in a sacred and tender way when his whole face is an ugly scar, and she is healed by the experience.
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	The English Patient (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It's a film which purports that one does not choose love, but rather that it's love that does the choosing, regardless of who, where or when; and furthermore, that it's a matter of the heart often contingent upon prevailing conditions and circumstances.
		And thus is the situation in `The English Patient,' directed by Anthony Minghella, the story of two people who discover passion and true love in the most inopportune of places and times, proving that when it is predestined, love will find a way.
		Thought to be English, the only clues pointing to who he is are contained in a book found in his possession after the crash, but even they are as cryptic as Hana's patient.
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	English Patient - Before Viewing: Film Summary
		Her patient, supposedly English, has been burnt in a plane accident, and cannot remember who he is. Kirpal Singh, or Kip, is a sapper; he clears the mines and bombs from the surrounding Italian countryside.
		Shifting like the desert sands, the film alternates between Hana and the English patient and between the present and the past.
		The English patient, charred from a plane crash, falls under her care.
	www.turnerlearning.com /tntlearning/englishpatient/summary.html (511 words)

	DVD Review - The English Patient: Collector's Series
		The color palette is lush and vibrant, presenting the film's simmering desert cinematography wonderfully, while rendering the darker, more subdued tones of the Italian monastery accurately as well.
		This is a film that you wade into a bit at a time, letting the story unravel slowly around you.
		And the ending is powerful and poignant, closing the film as it began and leaving behind a lingering sense of hope.
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	Filmtracks: The English Patient (Gabriel Yared)
		In the film, it fits well with the fatalistic and brooding nature of the plot, and the close fit with the highly acclaimed film has catapulted sales of the album to long-term heights.
		The English Patient, as a film, is a masterful example of the craft, and yet it's a frustrating tale of lost passion and doomed fate.
		Of his work on The English Patient, Yared has observed: "Anthony Minghella, whose musical knowledge is refined and wide-ranging, gave me a task that would be enormously difficult for any composer: to attempt to equal or at least replace the great Bach of the Aria from the Goldberg Variations.
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		In fact, The English Patient can be regarded, in part, as a deconstruction of Casablanca, an anti-Casablanca that turns all the assumptions of the older film on their heads.
		In The English Patient, Almasy does succeed; his affair with Katherine is his running away from himself, to his and everyone else’s destruction.
		The lack of boundaries The English Patient celebrates is not that of cosmopolitanism but that of narcissism, the chief symptom of which is the inability of the self to feel or recognize proper boundaries of feeling.
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	Film Reviews - The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Anthony Minghella's The English Patient is an unashamedly traditional sweeping romantic epic; broad in scope and intense in its emotion.
		Set during the final days of the Second World War, the film tells the story of the eponymous patient, a hideously burnt man pulled from the wreckage of the biplane he was piloting.
		Ralph Fiennes is perfectly cast in the lead role, both in the flashback scenes (where he is a dashing figure of a man, yet still exuding the potential for betrayal), and in the sections of the film set in the monastery, where he portrays the fatalistic emotions of a dying man with power and sympathy.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/keith.dumble/patient.html (513 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "The English Patient" review
		The story of the patient (Ralph Finnes), who is dying of burns suffered when his plane was shot down over North African desert, is told in flashbacks.
		In Tuscany in the film's present, his nurse (Juliette Binoche) eases his physical pain with morphine while trying escape a painful world of her own in which everyone she cares about has died in the war.
		Alternating between the heat of the romance in the desert and the cool of the monastery in the Italian countryside, the film trades on images and characters that appear to be one thing, but change and change again from moment to moment, scene to scene.
	www.splicedonline.com /96reviews/english.html (606 words)

	Colin Firth in The English Patient
		Hana is a young Canadian nurse who at the end of the war retreats to an abandoned Italian monastery to care for the badly burned pilot - "the English patient" and cope with her emotional wounds.
		While Hana tends for her English patient he slowly remembers his past: he is not a Brit, but the Hungarian Count Laszlo de Almásy, a linguist and noted expeditioner who has charted unexplored regions of the Sahara.
		Caravaggio, the patient's pursuer, has his own damage and must find his own redemption, which is ultimately to do with forgiveness.
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	The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The present tense of the film is the final year of World War II, the setting a bomb-damaged villa in the hills north of Florence, the action four characters seeking shelter there and attempting to undo some of the damage of the war.
		In the present tense of the narrative, the patient's grotesquely scarred face and his pain are the central exhibit of the film--saying, in effect, this is the result of dividing things up stupidly.
		The film is quite true to the novel except that it spends less time developing Kip and entirely omits his sudden angry departure at the end, replacing the bleak intrusion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a mellower set of rewards for its suffering characters.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webfilms/english.patient51-film-.html (517 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The English Patient (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A horribly-burned man, the ``English patient'' of the title, is part of a hospital convoy.
		Meanwhile, the patient's memories start to return in flashes of detail, spurred by the book that was found with his charred body--an old leather-bound volume of the histories of Herodotus, with drawings, notes and poems pasted or folded inside.
		But the novel is so labyrinthine that it's a miracle it was filmed at all, and the writer-director, Anthony Minghella, has done a creative job of finding visual ways to show how the rich language slowly unveils layers of the past.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961122/REVIEWS/611220301/1023 (1108 words)

	NPR : Novelist MICHAEL ONDAATJE and film director ANTHONY MINGHELLA talk about the film "The English...
		Film director ANTHONY MINGHELLA directed "The English Patient" In addition, He also wrote the Screenplay.
		Minghella was born on the Isle of Wight, England.
		He made his film debut with the highly acclaimed, "Truly, Madly, Deeply." A film that won him best Screenplay by The Writers Guild of Great Britain.12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. 'E-mail this Story' sponsored by: Kean: We Get IT Done.
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		By the end of the film, the mysteries are resolved, the characters have stolen your heart, and two great romances have blossomed.
		The characters in these stories are linked only by a man known merely as "The English Patient." After a plane crash in North Africa and a rescue by local tribesmen, a horribly burnt man is sent to Italy where he is taken under the wing of a Canadian nurse named Hana (Juliette Binoche).
		She takes The English Patient from the ambulance convoy to an abandoned monastery where she spends time reading to him and caring for him.
	www-static.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/63/6333 (1096 words)

	The English Patient - Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The patient claims to have forgotten everything, including his name, and the only clue to his identity is the book he has with him, a copy of the histories by Herodotus, the fifth century B.C. Greek historian--a book filled with personal letters and drawings and maps and photographs.
		It emerges that the patient was a prominent member of a prewar expedition making maps of the hitherto uncharted deserts--an international group from England's Royal Geographical Society.
		As for the patient--in telling his story, in finally confronting what has happened to him and to the woman he tried so hard not to love and then lost everything to--his release is to let go and join the ghosts in the cloisters.
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	The English Patient (1996)
		Hence the most striking aspect of The English Patient is its photography, superb on both the endless scale of the desert and on the intimacy of the human face.
		The level of acting within The English Patient is uniformly high, from the central characters to the smallest walk-on roles.
		The heart of the film lies in the sorrow of discovering what you've lost when it's already gone, for this is where the pain lies.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/English_Patient.html (1011 words)

	EUFS: The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It emerges that Hana's patient is Laszlo de Almasy, a Hungarian count and pre-war cartographer in the Sahara.
		The liberating emptiness of the desert is captured seductively with brilliant cinematography, the comparisons between nations and no-man's land are poignantly brought to the foreground as the innocent are divided by a war which is not their own.
		Equally, his attention to detail is present in both films, although it is clear that in The English Patient, the detail of the characters' environment is just as central as the characters themselves.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_english_patient.html (328 words)

	Salon \| Michael Ondaatje
		In the film they reduced the role of Kip substantially; a lot of his character's depth was removed.
		In the film, she's a simpler and less damaged character, and her redemption is easier.
		The film ends with Hana riding in a truck and this lovely blurred green flashing, after that unforgettable shot of the plane over the desert.
	www.salon.com /nov96/ondaatje961118.html (2279 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The English Patient: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends.
		The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of sheet lightning.
		The passages of dialogue between the English Patient and the others are sublime, especially his recollections of the desert.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747572593 (906 words)

	English Patient - Novel & Film
		Recall the scene in the film in which Hana supports the sagging villa stairs with books.
		Recall the scene in the film in which Kip defuses the bomb.
		The English patient mentions one painting by Caravaggio: David with the Head of Goliath.
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		This is a film that is at once thoughtful and sensuous, though it may not pack the emotional impact it wants to with all audiences.
		The story advances in two lines, one of the disfigured patient (played by Ralph Fiennes) and his relationship with Hana (Juliette Binoche), a Canadian nurse who more or less adopts the dying man. Hana is a little shell-shocked herself as anybody that she grows to care about dies or is killed soon after.
		In fact he opens the film with the image of the Swimming Man. He must be seeing Almasy as being in some way the Swimming Man. It is a mysterious visual image to make as important as it is in the visuals.
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	Review: The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The one flaw in The English Patient is related to an aspect of the structure.
		The English Patient is the sort of intelligent, epic love story that seems so rare these days.
		This motion picture is yet another example of how the patience of movie-goers, after being sorely tried during the first eight mediocre months of 1996, is being rewarded by a surge of excellent end-of-the-year releases.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/e/english.html (828 words)

	The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The English Patient is basically broken in to two stories.
		One is the story of an English War Patient from the 40’s who has been horribly burnt and has little time to live.
		One of which is a very seedy character, who has another agenda in staying in the house, and that is to unfold the true identity of the English patient.
	users.bigpond.net.au /cassdvd/english_patient.htm (610 words)

	The English Patient
		As the journey is obviously causing the English Patient considerable pain, and as he is at death's door anyway, Hana volunteers to stay behind in an abandoned monastery to care for him until he dies, and then catch up with her platoon in Leghorn.
		The English Patient is one of those old-fashioned movies which sweeps you away to exotic locales, wraps you up in a swathe of romance and eroticism, and returns you to reality a couple of hours later emotionally drained, but with a sense of having experienced something magical.
		Another impressive element in The English Patient is that, whilst Hana listens to Almásy's tale, her relationship with Kip begins to mirror the previous one.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /englpat.htm (1079 words)

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