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Synopsis: Once upon a time there were two people in love, their names were Nina and Jamie. They were even happy enough to be able to live happily ever after, (not often the case) and then Jamie died. Nina is left with a house full of rats and handymen, a job teaching foreigners English and an ache that fills the night sky.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Anthony Minghella
Production: BBC
  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 16 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
72%
PG
Year:
1990
106 min
3,446 Views


That was the problem

with you and Gabriella.

- You couldn't talk to each other.

- That was its strength.

When we started to talk, it went wrong.

Before that, it was terrific.

Sign language. It was great.

- Voila!

- You're a twerp. What is this?

This is work. It's for you. It's urgent.

It's manuals and whatever.

But the postcard. Could you sight-read it?

I'm beginning to have an anxiety attack.

- "Dear Daddy..."

- Where does it say that?

- "Querido papa..." There.

- Fantastic.

"We are spending our holidays in Mar del

Plata." Oh, it's supposed to be beautiful.

"I am swimming in the sea

and I am not wearing..."

Oh, what do you call them?

I am not wearing... things.

- Trunks?

- Floats.

"Mario is teaching me

to swim underwater."

Bastard.

"We are staying in a very big hotel,

which has a television in the bathroom."

Oh, that's the thing about Gabriella!

Give her a television in the bathroom...

Doesn't that make you laugh?

After all that stuff about materialism,

a TV in the bathroom!

"Last night we went to a football match...

...and then we had a barbecue,

which gave me diarrhoea."

Oh, that is terrible! Because Mario is

a bastard. That is beyond dispute.

He's absolutely and manifestly

a bastard, is in loco parentis...

And what is he doing? Poisoning my son!

"I'm having a great time. Wish you

were here. Lots of love, Charlie."

Yeah.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- He's having a great time.

I have to write back, Nina.

Would you help me write back?

If you promise me you'll make

an effort to learn Spanish!

Si, si, senorita. Thank you. Gracias.

You're a good person.

How is soup? Fantastic?

- It's fantastic.

- Fantastic.

I tell her last night...

Nina, she is beautiful woman.

She is beautiful.

- You are.

- OK.

- Well, I think she's beautiful.

- Who's this who's beautiful?

- We're talking about Nina.

- Yeah, she is.

Guys, what is this?

She really loved him. It's tragic.

And he was young, you know.

He was younger than me.

It's cruel. It's harsh.

He had a sore throat. One minute he has

a sore throat, then he's being examined.

Then he stops breathing. The anaesthetist

couldn't get the tube down.

If he'd just had a wee suck on a Strepsil,

it would never have happened.

I think she loves me.

I know she doesn't know yet, but...

- Do you like washing?

- Yeah.

I like getting my hands in the warm water.

- I like drying.

- Also me.

Me too.

Look at this water. It's brown!

It's a miracle there's any water.

This is a terrible flat.

Or I find that I've... just been

sitting with my head in my hands...

...and an hour has gone by,

or longer, like this.

And I'm completely numb.

And the kettle can be boiling away,

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Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. more…

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