From the novel by Michael Ondaatje Anthony Minghella's screenplay is a gripping adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning story of love, betrayal and loss set against a background of war, spies and intrigue."Here is a work of art to break your heart" (Time); "The current movie versions of books are well-meaning, but none comes close to The English Patient in their ability to turn literary prose into cinematic gems" (New York Times)
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A novel that takes place as the Second World War is ending, and explores the lives of four very different people who find themselves sheltering together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. From the author of SKIN OF A LION.
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A novel that takes place as the Second World War is ending, and explores the lives of four very different people who find themselves sheltering together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. From the author of SKIN OF A LION.
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Bloomsbury Methuen Drama’s Screen and Cinema series features a selection of some of the most popular screenplays of recent years, including works by Stephen Poliakoff and Anthony Minghella. Students of Literature and Film Studies will also find plenty of material to support their courses in the range of Screen Adaptations titles, each of which examines the various screen versions of one of Shakespeare’s plays. Including excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and shooting scripts, each title in this series considers how the original text is adapted for the screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original work.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780413715005
Publisert
1997-02-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
220 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
11 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224

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Anthony Minghella, CBE was an English film director, playwright and screenwriter. Born on the Isle of Wight in 1984, he was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. His plays include Whale Music, Two Planks and a Passion, A Little Like Drowning (for which he won the Critics Award for Most Promising Playwright, 1984), Made in Bangkok (for which he won the Critics Award for Best New Play, 1986), Hang Up, Cigarettes and Chocolate, and Eyes Down Looking. He was an Oscar-winning director, famous for his adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient (1996). He died in 2008. Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Toronto.  The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into an Oscar-winning film directed by Anthony Minghella.