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Anthony Minghella

3 titles · british contemporary

Big literary adaptations with the romance at the front. The English Patient opens in war-torn Italy in 1944, where a French-Canadian nurse feels that everyone she loves is dying. In The Talented Mr. Ripley, a Manhattan lavatory attendant borrows a Princeton jacket and is mistaken for someone he is not. Cold Mountain follows a wounded Confederate soldier who deserts and walks home across the South.

Signature

  • Prestige adaptations of Michael Ondaatje, Patricia Highsmith and Charles Frazier.
  • Love stories framed by war (The English Patient, Cold Mountain).
  • Envy and borrowed identity in 1950s Italy (The Talented Mr. Ripley).
  • Sweeping location photography and full orchestral scores.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) poster

The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999
The English Patient (1996) poster

The English Patient

1996
Cold Mountain (2003) poster

Cold Mountain

2003

Influenced by Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Third Man, The Thin Red Line.

Went on to influence Killing Me Softly, Matchstick Men, Swimming Pool, The Room, The Shape of Things, The Constant Gardener, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Brothers Bloom, The Reader, The Big Picture, Free Fall, The Best Offer.

Also on moral ambiguity, identity crisis, war trauma, forbidden love, redemption, survival.

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