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Starring:
Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Juergen Prochnow, Clive Merrison, Nino Castelnuovo, Kevin Whately
Directed By:
Anthony Minghella
Written By:
Anthony Minghella
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The English Patient (1996)
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Movie Review by AJ 
July 13th, 2006
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Aesthetically, The English Patient is beautiful. Anthony Minghella knows how to lavishly direct an epic like this, and the cinematography by John Seale is absolutely gorgeous. Emotionally, though, The English Patient is hollow and wholly insincere. It basically plays like a great-looking episode of The Bold and the Beautiful; or, as I like to say, it's Titanic only with better actors. Ralph Fiennes is such an intense performer he can elevate anything he's in, and here he brings a fiery passion to a role deserving of much less. Juliette Binoche is a fine French actor, but brings nothing to the table here, and Willem Dafoe and Naveen Andrews are two superb character actors whose energy flickers and dies under Minghella's lifeless script. And his script truly is the biggest problem: Not once did I ever believe these characters, their actions, their situations, or, for the love of God, their laughably melodramatic monologues which just keep comin'. This whole film would've made a great cheerleader: Great body, no personality.
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