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First Film Was Minghella's Finest Work

Posted Mar 21, 08 12:45 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – He might be known for his sweep of the 1996 Academy Awards with The English Patient, but director Anthony Minghella should be remembered for his first film, Dana Stevens writes in Slate. Truly, Madly, Deeply, a 1990 made-for-TV movie that's now something of a cult classic, is a "psychologically accurate portrait of grief" that still manages to be funny and "madly romantic."

The story, about a mourning pianist whose lover returns as a ghost, does more than inspire a "debilitating, lifelong crush on Alan Rickman." It makes my "semisecret list of all-time favorite movies," Stevens writes. Not "formally innovative or visually impressive or thematically original," it can yet "reduce anyone who's ever loved and lost—or even just loved—to a quivering jelly."

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Alan Rickman, upon whom the author developed a "debilitating crush," is shown here at the premiere of HBO's "Something the Lord Made."   (Getty Images)
British film director Anthony Minghella holds his Achievement in Directing Oscar for "The English Patient" at the 69th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, in this March 24, 1997 file photo.   (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, FILE)
British film director Anthony Minghella arrives for The National Board of Review's 2000 Gala Awards in New York, in this Jan. 18, 2000, file photo.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FILE)
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The trailer for Truly, Madly, Deeply, Anthony Minghella's first film.   (jablkovastrudla (YouTube))

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