The English Patient (Widescreen) Format: DVD

The English Patient is a non-linear story that has an elliptical structure, beginning and ending with the same scene whilst delicately meandering back and forth from the late 30's Africa, to 1945 Italy... just as the amnesiac title character recalls the events that his memory is gradually regaining. Minghella is able to smooth over what ought to have been extremely confusing gaps and jumps in chronology with splintered structures and individual narratives about characters that are often never linked together. In the end he has created an extremely coherent story which is set against an backdrop of complex political, archaeological and love triangle vistas. Condition: Used - Like new