There are a few deaths and a couple of bloody scenes. Expect occasional strong language (mostly several uses of "f-k" and "s-t"), as well as plenty of violence, including stylized martial arts sequences that use both real and improvised weapons and include close-range brawling. It centers on a middle-aged laundromat owner named Evelyn ( Michelle Yeoh), who discovers she must help save the multiverse during a routine trip to file her business taxes.
ENGLISH PATIENT SCREENIT MOVIE
With The English Patient, Minghella proves that a movie love story can be smart, principled and provoking, and still sweep you away.Parents need to know that Everything Everywhere All at Once is a trippy sci-fi/fantasy martial arts adventure from the directors of the dark comedy Swiss Army Man. Flashbacks reveal how the cool, cynical Almasy becomes drunk on Katharine, forging his honor through a commitment that prevails over the conflicting loyalties of war. On first seeing Katharine, Almasy is told by a friend: “She’s charming, and she’s read everything,” Intellect and carnality fuse combustibly in the rhapsodically sexy Scott Thomas. Katharine betrays her husband (a superb, touching Colin Firth) in scenes of sizzling eroticism with Almasy that lead to scalding guilt. And Scott Thomas, mistaken as chilly by those who know her only from Four Weddings and a Funeral, is an incandescent revelation in her first full-out romantic role. It’s the memories of the English patient, filtered through pain and drug-induced delirium, that provide the focus for Minghella, whose artful script and direction mark him as a master of intimate emotion.įiennes, in or out of disfiguring makeup, gives a performance of probing intelligence and passionate heart. Binoche and Andrews are vibrant and moving, though the back story of Hana and Kip’s interracial affair has been truncated for the screen. This hypnotic epic, impeccably produced by Saul Zaentz ( Amadous) and stunningly shot by John Seale ( Witness), moves across time and the borders of Italy, Egypt and North Africa to link its two love stories. Yet Ondaatje’s poetic spirit flares brightly onscreen. Minghella, born in England to Italian parents, imposes a more linear structure, maximizes Almasy and Katharine at the expense of other characters, and sacrifices some of the book’s mystery for cinematic coherence. Ondaatje, a Canadian citizen born in Sri Lanka, told his story in lyrical bursts. Writer and director Anthony Minghella ( Truly, Madly, Deeply) has altered the novel. Admirers of the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje won’t remember things beginning that way because they didn’t. German fire sends them parachuting to the desert in flames, his body clinging to hers in a paradigm of love and death. It’s clear from the shimmering, startling opening shot: Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), a Hungarian count, desert explorer and pilot, is flying Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas), the married Englishwoman he loves, over the Sahara in a small plane during World War II. Get ready for the great romance of the movie year.
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