![]() ![]() "I was not alone in being highly impressed – and deeply moved – by the film at the press screening. Is this Spain's greatest film director?Ĭritic and programmer Geoff Andrew remembers reviewing the film for Time Out when it first came out. Amélie – the most stylish film ever made? Like many a romantic epic, it was based on a best-selling novel – by Michael Ondaatje – and it also had a prestige director, Anthony Minghella, whose star was on the rise. The setting was a decoratively dilapidated monastery in the Italian countryside, and the flashbacks took place in the Sahara during World War Two: dramatic both visually and thematically. Film critics awarded it five stars, enraptured by the story of the badly scarred hero (Ralph Fiennes) recalling his passionate affair with Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas) while being tended to by nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche) – herself enjoying a romance with Kip (Naveen Andrews). ![]() ![]() ![]() It happened in 1939 with Gone with the Wind, in 1965 with Doctor Zhivago, and in 1996, with The English Patient. Every now and then, a film comes along that sweeps audiences off their feet with its swooning romance, incredible historical setting and swelling score. ![]()
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