El Paciente Ingles - The English Patient [DVDRIP][2CDs][Dual Eng torrent

Al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundia, en una villa en ruinas en la Toscana, se reúnen cuatro personajes. Un enigmático hombre con el cuerpo completamente quemado, una joven enfermera, un cínico superviviente y un zapador especialista en desactivar explosivos. Atrapados en un limbo de brumosos claroscuros, estos cuatro extranjeros de sí mismos irán recomponiendo el mosaico de sus respectivas identidades a través de una serie de recuerdos, revelaciones que discurren paralelamente a una bellísima historia de amor y celos.

Ganadora de 9 Oscar, 2 Globos de Oro, Oso de Plata y 6 Premios Bafta de la Academia Británica.













United States, 1996

U.S. Release Date: 11/15/96 (limited); 11/22/96 (wide)

Running Length: 2:40

MPAA Classification: R (Sex, nudity, violence, profanity)

Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, Naveen Andrews, Julian Wadham, Kevin Whately, Juergen Prochnow

Director: Anthony Minghella

Producer: Saul Zaentz

Screenplay: Anthony Minghella based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje

Cinematography: John Seale

Music: Gabriel Yared

U.S. Distributor: Miramax Films



For those who have forgotten the depth of romance and passion that the movies are capable of conveying, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient can remedy the situation. This is one of the year's most unabashed and powerful love stories, using flawless performances, intelligent dialogue, crisp camera work, and loaded glances to attain a level of eroticism and emotional connection that many similar films miss.



Is The English Patient melodramatic? Of course, but it's the sort of finely-honed melodrama that embraces viewers rather than smothering them. And the movie never resorts to cheap, manipulative tactics. This well-crafted story, brought to the screen with great care by British playwright and director Anthony Minghella (Truly, Madly, Deeply) and based on the prize-winning novel by Michael Ondaatje, serves up the love of Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) and Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas) in a way that is simultaneously epic and intimate.



The English Patient has an elliptical structure, beginning with the same scene that it ends with. In between, it moves several years into the future, and even further into the past. The opening sequence, which takes place during World War II, shows a British plane being shot down over the North African desert. The pilot, a Hungarian count named Laszlo Almasy, is badly burned in the ensuing crash. Years later, in 1944 Italy, we meet him again. Although his outward injuries have healed, leaving his features scarred beyond recognition, he is dying. He has also supposedly lost his memory. Hana (Juliette Binoche), the Canadian nurse who cares for him, takes him to an isolated, abandoned church to allow him to die in peace. There, injecting him with morphine and reading to him from his beloved volume of Herodotus, Hana seeks to seeks to stimulate his memories. Meanwhile, others arrive at the church -- a mysterious, crippled war veteran named Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), who has a hidden agenda, and a pair of bomb experts, the British Sgt. Hardy (Kevin Whately) and his Sikh superior, Kip (Naveen Andrews), who becomes Hana's lover.



Eventually, through dreams and waking flashbacks, Almasy's memories come flooding back, although Caravaggio asserts that he hasn't really forgotten anything -- he just wants to forget. The story then flip-flops between the present and a period during the late-'30s and early- '40s, when Almasy is part of a British map-making effort surveying the Sahara. It's then that he meets Katharine Clifton, the wife of a good-natured pilot (Colin Firth) who is helping with the project. Almasy and Katharine fall for each other, and the stage is set for a classic exploration of love and betrayal set against the dangerous background of Nazi aggression.