Some movies feel completely tied to the era that crowned them, but every now and then one of those awards giants comes back around and reminds people why it won in the first place. The English Patient has spent years being talked about as a shorthand for prestige cinema, but there is a reason it connected so strongly in the first place. It is lush, tragic, sweeping, and deeply locked into a kind of old-school Hollywood romanticism that studios do not really chase in the same way anymore.
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