Thursday 29th April 2010 1pm THE ENGLISH PATIENTAuthor: Michael Ondaatje Film Director: Anthony Minghella
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat
lightning.
UK/USA 161 min Rated M Dir: Anthony MinghellaCast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristen Scott
Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth
The film had twelve nominations and nine Oscar wins.
Did the film succeed in evoking the mystery and passion as portrayed in the book?
2 comments:
Stunned by the visual beauty of the characters, landscapes, costumes etc. Read the book a LONG time ago and don't remember getting such a strong sense of the relationships from the book,seem to remember the main protagonist as being a different character but maybe that's just my memory! Very elegant and moving portrayal of noble and ignoble passions in exotic climes in traumatic times. Beautiful.
I just watched some of trailers for this movie. The movies sounds to be nice one. Now I am trying to get DVD for it in good deal. If I got it, I will watch this film in coming weekend only :]]
Post a Comment