THE ENGLISH PATIENT opens. Written and directed by Anthony Minghella. Adapted from the Booker Award-winning novel by Michael Ondaatje. Haunting, Oscar-garlanded, lushly panoramic "Zhivago of Arabia" epic flashbacking between WW2 Italy and North Africa with Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas as fateful lovers caught in the crosshairs of history. Co-starring Juliette Binoche, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth and Willem Dafoe.