 The English Patient 1996  R, 162 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth, Julian Wadham, Jurgen Prochnow, Clive Merrison, Kevin Whately, Nino Castelnuovo, Hichem Rostom, Peter Ruhring, Torri Higginson, Geordie Johnson
Based on Michael Ondaatje's novel, this is the story of the changing of Count Laszlo de Almasy's (Ralph Fiennes) life by aristocrat Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott-Thomas) in 1938. Now, in 1944, following his World War II plane crash, the count, nursed by Canadian Hana (Juliette Binoche), remembers events leading to the accident in which he was badly burned. The movie won an impressive nine Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress (Binoche).
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 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel, Anne Vernon, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey
This beautifully photographed and scored love story involves a woman who–finding herself pregnant by her lover away fighting in the war–marries another man. All dialog is sung, which causes the dubbed version to suffer compared to the subtitled one. Three musical Academy Award nominations were received as well as a nomination for Best Foreign Film.
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