Haunting and enthralling, The English Patient is a scrapbook of another world, of romance and adventure and tragedy, jumbled out of sequence.Years after the plane crash, its pilot, Count Almasy (Ralph Fiennes) he survived the crash but was horribly burned and is now dying reminisces bitterly about his stolen, illicit affair with Katherine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), the woman in the plane. Almasy at first seems repelled by Katherine, the wife of a fellow cartographer Geoffrey Clifton (Colin Firth) all are part of an international group mapping North Africa just before World War II but in fact he's so strongly attracted to her that it frightens him. He is the kind of man who bottles up emotions until they explode, and when he and Katherine do finally come together, it is with a kind of rage.
DAK RELATED MOVIES - THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
