Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen's gradual discovery of her life and voice. One downside: while we may all love Redford, he is as convincingly British as Kevin Costner is in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. --Tom Keogh

Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Stars: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens
Production: Universal Pictures
  Won 7 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
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PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
1985
161
4,643 Views

Karen Blixen:
He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart.

Karen Blixen:
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

Denys:
Think of it: never a man-made sound... and then Mozart!

Karen Blixen:
Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

Hims not a chicken... Hims a fish

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