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Movie Description
Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA, this film plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings of a practical marriage. Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) is a gallant British hunter, lonely, but unable to commit. As they two meet and begin a torrid affair, they set out on an epic adventure in the badlands of Africa--an adventure that real-life Karen Blixen-Flecke would later novelize under the pen name Isak Dinesen.
Sydney Pollack's opus, OUT OF AFRICA, is a full, visually compelling film. Its storyline evokes a plethora of emotions, ranging from fear and loathing to hope and the elation of love. Robert Redford and Meryl Streep are electric as the two damaged infidels in love. A key American film, OUT OF AFRICA is not to be missed.
Synopsis
Sydney Pollack directs this sweeping romantic drama based on the memoirs of Danish writer Isak Dinesen. Meryl Streep stars as Karen Blixen, the restless wife of European aristocrat and plantation owner Baron Bror Blixen. When Bror departs to hunt big game and chase women, the running of their East African coffee plantation falls to Karen. She throws herself into this task with the same determination and spirit she brings to her passionate but sporadic affair with free-spirited British hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford). While enduring her husband’s infidelities and the eventual destruction of their beloved land, she entertains Denys and befriends the workers. Hatton shares Karen's profound love for the African landscape but is unwilling to sacrifice his independence for their relationship. The scenery and photography are breathtaking and add to Pollack’s well-captured sense of time and place. The screenplay was culled from the biographies of both people. Karen Blixen’s husband, Baron Bror Blixen, was the model for the character Robert Wilson in Ernest Hemingway’s THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER.
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Letterboxed Widescreen - 1.85
Dual Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital 4.1 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - French
Additional Release Material:
Song of Africa
Feature Commentary with Director Sydney Pollack
Cast and Filmmakers Bios
Trailer - Theatrical
Universal Web Links
Text\Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Theatrical release: February 21, 1986.
Filmed on location in Kenya and Northeast England.
The book OUT OF AFRICA is Danish writer Isak Dinesen's (her real name was Karen Blixen) account of her life in British East Africa from 1913 to 1931.
"He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart."--Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep)
Industry Reviews
"...[Streep creates] a Karen Blixen of such intelligence, intensity and obsessiveness that you can believe she would one day...write the cool, dark, bewitching prose..."
Canby
"...A sensitive, enveloping romantic tragedy..."
Variety - Har. (12/11/1985)
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