The English Patient
Nineties sweeping romantic drama
A 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje and its 1996 film adaptation, both following a badly burned man in an Italian villa at the end of World War II as his identity and past love affair gradually emerge through fragmented memories.
The title refers to the mysterious patient, presumed English, whose nationality proves more complicated.
The film won nine Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Have you read The English Patient or just seen the movie?
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