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	The English Patient Movie Review
		The English Patient, based on a novel by Michael Ondaatje, begins with a scene where two people are flying in a bi-plane over a vast desert which looks like an ocean of sand.
		The rest of the movie is about flashbacks and memories of this English patient, who happens to have a case of amnesia.
		The English Patient is rated R. For the first hour and a half there really isn't much that is offensive, but after that point, get ready for full frontal nudity and some sex scenes, along with violence and language.
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	REELINSIDER.COM - THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
		Caravaggio is appeased, Hana is set on the course of her own love affair with the wonderfully handsome Naveen Andrews as Kip, an Indian soldier, and Laszlo and Katharine fade into cinematic amber as the exemplar of tragic true love lost.
		1996 was one of those years where Academy voters picked out quirky independent movies that had somehow managed to appeal to broad audiences, at least one box office hit and a self-possessed epic to nominate for top honors.
		While I think Fargo is a fun movie and particularly unusual when it was released, its nomination as picture of the year was as mystifying to me as was The English Patient that was, along with Jerry Maguire, the most obvious shoe-in in the nomination process.
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	Movie Habit: Review of English Patient (1996), ****
		The English Patient is a masterful epic of romance, art, music, history, and war.
		Because a large portion of the film takes place in the desert and because it has the scope and feel of an epic, The English Patient is oftentimes referenced in the same sentence as Lawrence of Arabia, the king of all desert movies.
		Granted that the film’s initial release was a case of the right movie at the right time, an extended cut would nonetheless certainly be an interesting film to see, based on the deleted scenes shown in the supplemental segments.
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	Isle of Wight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The south coast of the island adjoins the English Channel.
		During the English Civil War King Charles fled to the Isle of Wight believing he would receive sympathy from the governor Robert Hammond.
		The spread of the latter in general, together with a growth in the Island population through immigration, means the broader accent is more prevalent in the older population.
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	Isle of Wight -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Often thought of as part of (A county of southern England on the English Channel) Hampshire, the Isle of Wight was briefly included in that county when the first (The elected governing body of a county) county councils were created in 1888.
		The only significant present-day administrative link with (A county of southern England on the English Channel) Hampshire is the police service, which is joint between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
		Much later on after the (The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588) Spanish Armada in 1588 the threat of Spanish attacks remained, and the outer fortifications of Carisbrooke Castle were built between 1597 and 1602.
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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 thief, and a British Army sapper as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian monastery.
		One of the main characters, the burned man, is Count László de Almásy, a famous Austro-Hungarian researcher of the Sahara Desert, disciple of Herodotus, and discoverer of the Ain Doua prehistoric rock painting sites in the western Jebel Uweinat mountain.
		With over a 40 time transitions, the movie was a puzzle that was put together again and again over the course of one year.
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	The English Patient
		When stand-up comics play to younger audiences, "English Patient" is already a common punch-line for "overrated" or "some complete crap the old geezers and chicks like for reasons indeterminate", and that's a strong pillar upon which to build a reputation as a pretender.
		The people who hate this movie are shocked to find out that it won nine Oscars, equally shocked to find that the film has passionate defenders, and contemptuous of the taste and intelligence of the people who praise it so effusively.
		The 1996 films were not especially outstanding, and The English Patient was actually a legitimate candidate for Best Picture.
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	Movie Habit: Review of English Patient (1996), *** 1/2
		It is rare to see a movie where images and visual textures play such an important role, not merely as decoration, but as substance and metaphor.
		The patient’s love of a married woman is told as the earlier story, before he was burned.
		What makes this movie so good, though, is not the plot, per se, but the mood, the texture and the parallels between stories.
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	Review: The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The one flaw in The English Patient is related to an aspect of the structure.
		As is necessary for a movie of this tone and style, the acting is strong.
		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.
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	The English Patient, 1996
		The English Patient is a very well done epic, that makes good use of all of its stars, particularly Juliette Binoche, who plays her most endearing role to date.
		Like most epics, The English Patient goes on far too long, and the action is often halted by vast panoramas and stuffy dialogue.
		The English Patient seemed to have it all, at least as far as Miramax was concerned.
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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.
		A maze of flashback and inference, The English Patient is at its best as it pastes together the fragments of a life destroyed by desperation and love.
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	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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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
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	Epinions.com - Comments on 'Anthony Minghella's THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Actually, there would be a question as to whether she went to the villa for love of caring for her patient, or because she was too shell-shocked herself to continue being in the middle of it.
		While I personally would not be the one to disagree vehemently with you on the first two of your counts, the overall beauty and sophistication of this work of art certainly enables me to disregard such minor points of criticism in favour of the overall impression.
		I have myself always believed that watching movies is about appreciating art rather than about necessarily having to be "entertained." Appreciating art in my view implies that you accept to have your view of the world challenged in encountering how other people deal with a particular situation.
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	Kinnopio's Movie Reviews - The English Patient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The risk that's involved in both of these, and the risk that was took with The English Patient, is that love is not a universal emotion.
		The brief sequences of tension that Mingella inserts are good only for a quick thrill; the movie is dominated by the longer character scenes that drag the 160 minutes out to its fullest length.
		For a movie of such length, though, it's seemlessly executed: the pace is comfortable, the editing is not choppy, and the story does not include filler.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on English Patient at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I came to bury this movie in whatever expletives I could devise, because having watched it again, I spent hours afterward wondering why I sat there and cried when no one else in the room shed a single tear.
		The movie was filmed in Tunisia and Italy, and was based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a Canadian formerly of Ceylon.
		The movie opens with a two-seater plane (you know the kind with a open air seating, and goggles like the old Red Baron movies) flying over breathtaking scenery of sand dunes, that look obscene if you have a mind to see them that way.
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	THE ENGLISH PATIENT
		It's understandable that no studio would want to make a movie where their lead male star, and an exceptionally attractive one at that, is hidden behind grotesque burn makeup most of the time.
		Her patient's story makes her realize that love is a gift rarely found and one that should not be squandered.
		THE ENGLISH PATIENT captures the spirit and mood of these classics with its far-reaching scope, intriguing mystery and compelling characters.
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	Movie Review - `The English Patient' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fiennes' spareness is a good match for her, expressing the pain beneath the patient's immobile mask of a face.
		The movie is a bit too chilly and remote and - well, British - but Fiennes breaks through that reserve in the movie's wrenching finale, when we find out what was happening in that biplane flying over the desert.
		"The English Patient'' asks a lot of unanswerables, but it has a thrilling scene in which an explosives expert named Kip tries to defuse a bomb that literally has his name on it, and the sequence in which Kip and the nurse come together is the most vividly imagined romantic scene of the year.
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	English Patient, The (1996): Reviews
		It feels like a dream that a movie could have this kind of poetic grace and epic sweep, or could be so faithful to its source and still work so perfectly as a film.
		The two films bursting out of The English Patient (a chamber piece and a David Lean dune epic) require a juggling of tone, pace and scale that might easily defeat a director more seasoned than Minghella.
		All in all the movie struck me as an epic ode to adultery, destroying the lives of all it touched.
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	Amazon.com: The English Patient (1996): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.
		Some parts of this movie are somewhat boring, but if you pay close attention to the love story within the film then you won't be disappointed by the end of the movie.
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		It was all very strange; quite an experience for her to speak.
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	The English Patient: Collector's Edition on DVD - MovieWeb
		THE ENGLISH PATIENT is an epic, sweeping adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's richly layered, WWII-era novel chronicling two periods in the life of European explorer Count Laszlo Almasy, whose torrid affair with a colleague's wife is countered by the beginning of the war, allegations of Nazi sympathies, and disfiguring injuries.
		The patient's stay at the ruins of an Italian monastery under the care of an emotionally injured French-Canadian nurse serves as a framing device for his intriguing story.
		The English Patient - In a crumbling villa in WWII Italy, during the final days of the European campaign, a young, shell-shocked war nurse (Hana) remains behind to tend her doomed patient - a horribly burned pilot.
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	The English Patient (1996) - FilmAffinity
		A young Canadian nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), has agreed to remain in Italy with the supposed English patient; she sets up a makeshift hospital in a deserted Italian monastery for him to live out his final days in peaceful seclusion near the end of WWII.
		The patient, Count Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes)--who is actually Hungarian--is suffering from disfiguring burns, and spends his days listening to Hana read from one of his remaining possessions--a copy of Herodotus.
		The English Patient was the big winner of the year 1996.
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	Movie Review of The English Patient
		It is a compelling meditation on the claims that love and nationhood have on personal identity, and on the power of war to skew those claims.
		Following the paths of lovers before, during, and after the war, Minghella's movie centers on the adulterous affair of an archaelogist, the Count (Ralph Fiennes), and his colleague's wife, Katherine (Kristin Scott Thomas).
		The English Patient is about many different types of ownership, many different modes of possession: a husband's possession of his wife, a country's possession of its citizens, and two pairs of lovers' possession of one another.
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	The English Patient: Collector's Series (1996)
		Essentially the rest of the movie follows their slow-developing romance, as we see what happens to them and how Almasy ends up in his current state.
		The English Patient appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Too many movie clips and too much praise for the author pop up here, which make this an unremarkable featurette that doesn’t expand much on what we heard from the prior series of segments.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Video: The English Patient [1996] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the publication of Michael Ondaatje's Booker-Prize-winning "English Patient," conventional wisdom soon held that the novel, while a masterpiece of fiction, was entirely untransferable to any other medium: too intricately layered seemed its narrative structure; too significant its protagonists' inner life; too rich its symbolism.
		"The English Patient" is an epic tale of love and loss; of ownership, belonging and the bars erected thereto.
		Similarly, once the focus had moved to the latter couple, Kip's back story would have extended the movie without significantly advancing it; and the same is true for the intersections between Caravaggio's path and that of Hana's father.
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	GreenCine \| product main - The English Patient (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When the hospital is forced to evacuate, Hana determines en route that the patient shouldn't be moved far due to his fragile condition, so the two are left in a monastery to be picked up later.
		In time, Hana begins to piece together the patient's story from the shards of his memories; he's actually Count Laszlo Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), of Hungarian nobility and an explorer working with a group mapping uncharted territory in North Africa.
		Meanwhile, Hana and the Patient are joined by Kip (Naveen Andrews), a Sikh with a gift for defusing mines, and Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), an intelligence agent who knows some of Laszlo's most shameful secrets.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The English Patient (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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 World War II 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 heat lightning.
		Unlike the movie, which concentrates on the love story between the English patient and the woman he loved, the novel is more about the confusing impulses that lead to both passion and danger in all the characters.
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	Combustible Celluloid - The English Patient (1996)
		The flip side of the coin is that these kinds of films usually feature excellent acting and dialogue, and that's because the characters and dialogue were written by actual writers and not Hollywood hacks.
		The English Patient features Ralph Fiennes (in flashback) as a mapmaker of mixed background who loves the desert and explores caves looking for cave drawings.
		The movie is directed by Anthony Minghella (Truly, Madly, Deeply) and looks beautiful, in a calculated kind of way that never catches fire.
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