the english patient not only have it all ( doom romance and tragic war and great character ) but it have it in a way that no other movie do . it be a spellbindingly tale tell through flashback feature amazing performance by all involve and somptuous visuals and character we care about and and the most rapturous love story ever tell . a cinematic landmark and the best film of 1996 and one of the very best of the 1990s .