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Article: A sand-swept epic that pierces the heart
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1996
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT
Directed and written by: Anthony Minghella (novel: Michael Ondaatje)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin
Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jurgen
Prochnow
At: Nickelodeon, suburbs
Rated: R (sexuality, some violence and language)
"The English Patient" begins with a great, spellbinding image --
of a vintage prop plane's shadow passing over an undulating,
seductively contoured orange desert. To see it is to be magically
transported back in time and to be filled with both wonder and dread
-- wonder at the evocative visual poetry that is still the province
of film, dread at the odds against the rest of the film living up ...