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The English Patient
Why this pick
Its sweeping desert imagery, doomed romance and reflective storytelling echo Out of Africa’s lush, melancholy sense of love shaped by place and memory.
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MOVIE1985 2h 41m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Karen Blixen recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 she, as an unmarried wealthy Danish woman, is spurned by her Swedish nobleman lover, and moves to Nairobi, East Africa Protectorate to complete a marriage of convenience with her lover's brother, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke. Bror has gone through his money and is reduced to seducing the servant girls; the couple plans to establish a dairy cattle farm. En route to Nairobi, she meets Denys Finch Hatton, a local big-game hunter.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Meryl Streep
Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen
Robert Redford
Denys George Finch Hatton
Michael Kitchen
Berkeley Cole
Malick Bowens
Farah
Michael Gough
Lord Delamere
Donal McCann
Doctor
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Baron Bror Blixen/Baron Hans Blixen
Suzanna Hamilton
Felicity