Tonight on TV: This 9-Oscar Film You May Have Never Seen That Will Shock You


Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: passionate love in a war setting.

In 1997, Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley) was inspired by the best-selling novel “The Flamed Man” by Michael Ondaatje for his film The English Patient.

Through a scenario constructed in flashbacks, he recounts a double romance in an abandoned monastery in Tuscany in the last days of the Second World War: that, passionate, feverish and devouring of a major amnesiac burn victim with a woman married before his accident (incarnated by Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas, both nominated for an Oscar for their performance); and the tender and modest one that unites the nurse Hana and the Sikh deminer named Kip (played by Juliette Binoche and Naveen Andrews).

With a cast of choice, Anthony Minghella signs a great epic fresco (the film lasts 2h40) evoking the Hollywood cinema of yesteryear. Thanks to the photography of John Seale (Witness, Rain Man, The Circle of Dead Poets), the landscapes are breathtaking, while the music by Gabriel Yared (37°2 in the morning) invites you to escape. Everything is beautiful, intense, contemplative.

An absolute success rewarded by 9 Oscars: Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Sets, Best Costumes, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Music and Best Actress in a second role for Juliette Binoche, who thus earns her stripes as an international star.

The English Patient by Anthony Minghella with Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe…

Tonight on Arte at 8:55 p.m.



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