magnifique;..ased on the eponymous work of Massachusetts-born novelist Noah Gordon, which was not a big hit stateside but became a colossal bestseller in especially Germany and Spain, The Physician stars Ben Kingsley as Ibn Sina, the Persian philosopher and medical scholar whose treatises were so influential they were still taught in European universities five centuries later. German director Philipp Stoelzl, who brought a refreshingly modern swagger to the romantic and largely fictitious biopic Young Goethe in Love, is a good fit for the material and it helps that the young leads, Tom Payne and Emma Rigby, are easy to root for and easy on the eyes.