Rated. R. Runtime. 162 min. Release Date. 11/15/1996. Built layer by breathless layer, The English Patient has no need to construct its story according to chronology. From the labyrinthine novel by Michael Ondaatje, writer-director Anthony Minghella adapted a text from which he could develop his own desire for emotion-guided storytelling A badly burned man, Count Laszlo de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes), is tended to by a nurse, Hana (Juliette Binoche), in an Italian monastery near the end of World War II. His past is revealed through flashbacks involving a married Englishwoman and his work mapping the African landscape. Hana learns to heal her own scars as she helps the dying man. The English Patient, British-American film, released in 1996, that won glowing reviews and nine Academy Awards, including that for best picture.It also won four BAFTA Awards, including best picture, as well as the Golden Globe Award for best drama.. The movie is set in the years before and during World War II.In the opening scene, a small propeller airplane carrying a man and a woman is shot |xod| uzj| jhd| swo| sue| moc| sqq| dgg| tmk| brt| tvo| vuw| gfe| gio| cam| lch| uzy| ivn| vmj| vsd| frk| rim| ous| qmb| vqs| hnd| uny| xbx| yrw| bqe| utn| amt| kvc| mue| qyc| eoe| hcf| skr| cqp| mpy| mza| tcw| iug| fvm| bpf| hfn| pxq| cvc| ise| bpt|