Anthony Minghella

Reviews

Breaking and Entering (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

While Breaking and Entering leans heavily on its metaphors (see especially, the titular allusions), it doesn't make any of its roiling notions compelling. [29 January 2007]

Cold Mountain: Collector’s Edition (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Anthony Minghella's image of the birds in snow articulates Cold Mountain's aesthetic and themes, its interest in collision and reverie, in nostalgia and resistance. [12 July 2004]

Cold Mountain (2003)

By Cynthia Fuchs

The first scene in Cold Mountain is sensational and sickening, an apt introduction to what will be a Civil War saga. [23 December 2003]

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

By jserpico

midst all the hoopla shouting of the probable Oscar proliferation showering upon The Talented Mr. Ripley; the ongoing comparisons (of the original series of novels by Patricia, the French film Purple Noon, and Anthony Minghella's creation); and glowing appreciation for Minghella's assembly of the most fashionable young and beautiful, there lie hidden a few very nasty notions regarding homosexuality. [1 January 1995]

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

By Cynthia Fuchs

On first hearing this voice-over at the beginning of Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley, you might think you're going to see a film about regret or guilt, or perhaps a refined kind of melancholy. But it's not long before you realize that for the speaker, Tom Ripley, such emotion - any emotion - is a performance.