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Features: DVD, Collector's Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Audio Commentary, Documentary, Featurettes, Interviews, French, Spanish Subtitled, 2 Discs
Winner of 9 Academy Awards(R) in 1996, including Best Picture, Best Director (Anthony Minghella) and Best Supporting Actress (Juliet Binoche), this powerful motion picture is an experience you will never forget. During World War II, a mysterious stranger (Ralph Fiennes) is cared for by American allies unaware of his dangerous past. Yet, as the mystery of his identity is revealed, an incredible tale of passion, intrigue, and adventure unfolds. Also starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, and Willem Dafoe.
"The year's best film." Time Magazine
"...an aerobic workout for the tear ducts." USA Today
Editor's Note
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 (Ralph Fiennes), whose torrid affair with a colleague's wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) 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 (Juliette Binoche, who won an Oscar for the role) serves as a framing device for his intriguing story. Academy Award winner Anthony Minghella directs this film that is at once incredibly modern and a well-crafted throwback to classic Hollywood epics of yesteryear.
Plot Summary
Set during World War II, this film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel concerns a horribly scarred, amnesiac mapmaker (Ralph Fiennes) who is found by Bedouins in the desert and then transported to Italy. When Allied nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche) devotes herself to caring for the mysterious patient in an abandoned monastery, his story of a intense love affair with a colleague's wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) begins to unfold in a series of flashbacks. Hana, meanwhile, faces her own demons and explores her attraction to a Sikh bomb expert (Naveen Andrews). Tensions escalate at the monastery following the appearance of Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), a thumbless thief who knows the identity of the mysterious patient. Anthony Minghella's (TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY) award winning epic is beautifully filmed with awe-inspiring scenery that includes sweeping desert vistas, crowded village markets, and serene Tuscany roads. The superb supporting cast, which includes Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth and Naveen Andrews, matches flawless performances by Fiennes, Thomas, and Binoche.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Making Of Featurette | | Master Class With Screenwriter And Director Anthony Minghella | | Subtitles: French, Spanish | | The Formidable Saul Zaentz--Producer | | Subtitles: Spanish, French | | The Formidable Saul Zaentz -- Producer | | About Author Michael Ondaatje | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS | | Filmmaker Conversations With Anthony MInghella, Saul Zaentz, Michael Ondaatje, And Editor Walter Murch | | Two Feature Commentary Tracks With The Filmmakers | | From Novel To Screenplay | | Master Class With Screenwriter And Director Anthony Minghella -- Deleted Scenes | | A Historical Look At The Real Count Almasy | | A Passionate Journey: The Making Of The English Patient |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 5/3/2005 |
| Running Time: 162 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 3500203 | | UPC: 00786936239065 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1997) |  | Saul Zaentz, Winner, Best Picture | | Juliette Binoche, Winner, Best Supporting Actress | | John Seale, Winner, Best Cinematography | | Anthony Minghella, Winner, Best Director | | | Ralph Fiennes, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Kristin Scott Thomas, Nominee, Best Actress | | | Anthony Minghella, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Minghella proves that a movie love story can be smart, principled and provoking, and still sweep you away..." 11/28/1996 p.142Variety
"...Respectable, intelligent....With its exotic, tapestry-like backgrounds, this is a picture of resplendently textured, sensuous surfaces..." 11/11/1996 Los Angeles Times
"...A mesmerizing romantic epic....THE ENGLISH PATIENT captivates as only the grandest and most consuming passions can..." 11/15/1996 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...This poetic, evocative film version of the famous novel by Michael Ondaatje circles down through layers of mystery until all of the puzzle in the story have been solved..." 11/22/1996 p.38 Washington Post 8 of 10
Awash in heart-rending emotions and gorgeous images, this is a movie to lose yourself in. - Desson Howe
The New York Times 9 of 10
...a stunning feat of literary adaptation as well as a purely cinematic triumph... The film has so m - Janet Maslin
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