Sweeping romantic drama of epic proportions. Fiennes's WWII pilot lays badly burned and in the care of an army nurse. As the unnamed, stiff-upper-lipped "English Patient" begins to recover, memories emerge of a past life as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, and a passionate affair with a married woman, Katharine. Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entran
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THE HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF (1995)
Certification15 Our Rating
France 1834 is ravaged by a cholera epidemic, whole towns are quarantined and strangers are driven away or killed. A beautiful young noblewoman, unable to return home, and a handsome fugitive soldier are thrust together for the action adventure of a lifetime...
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THE PAINTED VEIL (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
Flighty upper class Londoner Kitty is desperate to escape her repressive family life and accepts the marriage proposal of uptight Shanghai based bacteriologist Walter. Quickly bored she instigates her husband's hatred by having an affair with promiscuous diplomat Charlie and, as if in revenge, Walter drags her off to work in a mountainous cholera infected province in rural China. Some couples grew apart, some together....highly recommended.
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