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Article: FIENNES GROWS IN 'CONSTANT GARDENER'.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- August 31, 2005
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic
RALPH FIENNES goes to Africa again in ``The Constant Gardener.'' And just like in ``The English Patient,'' international forces beyond his control lead to fatal romantic tragedy.
Based on a John le Carre novel, this is yet another movie, like ``Out of Africa'' and ``Beyond Borders,'' that primarily uses the continent's many woes as a backdrop for Europeans' crises of heart and conscience.
At least the folks who made this visually striking, sometimes heartrending, swift and tense adaptation of John le Carre's novel try to say something significant about the current state of the developing world. The movie's ...