Juliette Binoche The film was a critical and commercial failure. "Three Colors: Blue", "The Horseman on the Roof" and "A Couch in New York" all gave Binoche the opportunity to work with prestigious directors she had turned down during the prolonged shoot of "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf". Her next role, in "The English Patient" reinforced her position as an international movie star. The film, based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje and directed by Anthony Minghella, was a worldwide hit. Produced by Saul Zaentz, producer of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", the film reunited Juliette Binoche with Ralph Fiennes, Heathcliff to her
Maurice Fiennes in the 1965 New Year Honours in recognition of his contributions to British engineering. He married Sylvia Joan Finlay, with whom he had five children including photographer Mark Fiennes. He was the grandfather of actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes. Maurice Fiennes Sir Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (1 March 1907 – 14 September 1994) was an English industrialist. Fiennes was the son of Alberic Arthur Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, and his wife, Gertrude Theodosia Pomeroy (née Colley), and great-grandson of Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele. He was educated at the independent Repton School in the village of Repton in Derbyshire and