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...English Patient, the keenly rapturous film that Anthony Minghella has made of Michael Ondaatje's novel, burrows into these feelings even as it flies above them like a plane full of surveyors. This is a big film, serious and voluptuous. It hopscotches through time, from 1937 to 1944, and over two continents. It probes issues of betrayal and forgiveness. It borrows Lawrence of Arabia's epic intellect for a tale of potent romance. But its sophistication never obscures the story, which is as charged as the North African adulteries in Casablanca and The Sheltering Sky. Here is an Englishwoman...
Directed by Anthony Minghella; starring Annabella Sciorra, William Hurt, Matt Dillon and Mary Louise Parker; Warner Brothers; rated...
...directed by Anthony Minghella, whose mostrecent work is "Truly, Madly, Deeply," Mr.Wonderful" lightly brushes over too manystereotypical scenarios and characters to eversurpass cliche. The movie mentions--thenskirts--Lee's embarassment about their Italianupbringing in the 'neighborhood.' The script alsoleaves William Hurt no opportunity to ressurrecthis character from painful one-dimensionality.Hurt plays a pompous and self-centered professorwho dates his students, but happens to be marriedas well. The movie gives no source for hisdetached air besides the fact that he isannoyingly over-cultured...
...remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan. In the '50s, Topper and the Kerbys explored the hereafter on TV. More recently, Field of Dreams cloaked the metaphysical in a baseball motif. In fact, the netherworld as a dramatic device is as old as theater. Anthony Minghella, writer and director of Truly, Madly, Deeply, a British variation of carpe diem, hails the technique as an inventive way to deal with loss and pain: "However dark these stories, they become an affirmation of life...