![]() But as shewatches him risk his life to disarm land mines, she fears her curse will doomhim if they fall in love, he will die. I don't thinkhe's forgotten anything.” The nurse is attracted to one of the bomb disposalmen, a handsome, cheerful Sikh officer named Kip ( Naveen Andrews). ![]() Anybody who loves me-who gets close tome-is killed.”) Caravaggio, who has an interest in the morphine Hana dispensesto her patient, is more cynical: “Ask your saint who he's killed. ![]() Hana cares for himtenderly, perhaps because he reminds her of other men she has loved and lostduring the war. The patient's skin is so badly burned it looks like torturedleather. Here she sets up a makeshift hospital, and soon she is joinedby two bomb-disposal experts and a mysterious visitor named Caravaggio (WillemDafoe). When he grows too ill to be moved, a nurse namedHana ( Juliette Binoche) offers to stay behind to care for him in the ruins ofan old monastery. A horribly burned man, the “English patient” of the title, ispart of a hospital convoy. The “present” action takes place in Italy, during the last daysof World War II. ![]()
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