Out of Africa

directed by Sydney Pollack
List(s):"Movie Two"
Category: "Drama"
Year of Release:1985
Date Added:02/01/2015
Date Watched:08/26/2024
Description:Based on a true story. Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), unlucky in love, enters a marriage of convenience with Baron Bror Blixen (Klaus Brandauer) — her money for his title. They head to Africa to live on his farm, but he makes the risky decision to grow coffee instead of cattle. Blixen is usually away, hunting and womanizing. On one of his visits home, he gives Karen syphilis. She goes home for treatment, and when she returns, she kicks Blixen out of the house. Denys Finch-Hatton (Robert Redford) is a hunter. He and Karen fall in love and, after a while, move in together. but Denys insists on his freedom and refuses to marry Karen. The coffee farm fails and Karen decides to head back to Denmark. Denys offers to fly her to the port city, but dies in a plane crash. She goes home and begins writing her memoirs and short fiction as Isak Dinesen.
My Rating:7

Reviews for Out of Africa

Review - Out of Africa

I saw this 40 years ago when it first came out and haven't watched it again since. I won't need to watch it again. It's really a story about nothing — a woman makes a bad marriage, has an affair, gains a measure of respect among the British colonials in Kenya, and goes home. But Streep, whom I am not a big fan of, was excellent and the movie drew me in so that I was rooting for her.

Reviewed by Roger on 2024-09-26 20:10:34

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