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Out of Africa
Initially set on being a dairy farmer, the aristocratic Karen Blixen travels to Africa to join her womanizing husband, Bror, who instead spends their money on a coffee plantation. There Karen has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
1960, London, England, UK
20 April 1924, Tottenham, London, England, UK
30 November 1922, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
28 May 1910, Dartmouth, Devon, England, UK
8 September 1922, London, England, UK
31 October 1948, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
23 November 1916, Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya [now Malaysia]
7 May 1943, Dublin, Ireland
8 August 1949, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
18 April 1927, Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
28 August 1933, London, England, UK
22 November 1954, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England, UK
22 June 1943, Bad Aussee, Styria, Austria
1 January 1917
25 July 1955, Mogadishu, Somalia
January 06, 2014
Out of Africa is a splendid example of that persistent genre, the coffeetable movie. It's big, beautiful, and imposing. But there isn't much to it, and pretty pictures -- replacing ideas, not supporting them -- are its only real attraction.
September 03, 2012
Not even the meticulous Meryl can breathe life into a movie that never really gets started, and takes almost an hour to end.
February 15, 2013
Despite its technical assurance and some strong performances, this is a film that favours spectacular landscapes over emotional depth.
January 06, 2014
Luedtke and Pollack bought these high-priced literary sources only to chuck them for a conventional, largely fictionalized movie romance.
January 06, 2014
Out of Africa has the sheen of artsiness and the gloss of two big-name actors. Unfortunately, that`s not quite enough in the absence of a story with vigor and passion.
January 06, 2014
My basic problem with this otherwise sumptuous and well-acted film is that I never was able to accept Redford in character.
January 06, 2014
What the movie loses in emotional realism, it gains in sheer epic audacity.
February 21, 2015
The relationship between Karen Blixen and her British lover, Denys Finch Hatton, may fail to catch fire. But the production itself is so exquisitely served that you can't help but be grateful for this extraordinary visual treat.
February 20, 2009
Out of Africa is, at last, the free-spirited, fullhearted gesture that everyone has been waiting for the movies to make all decade long. It reclaims the emotional territory that is rightfully theirs.
January 28, 2008
Maybe the problem of the pacing is simply the nature of the beast these days with expensive period pieces. Once the difficult details are all in place, it may be too much to expect a director to resist milking every scene for more than it's worth.
January 06, 2014
Streep may convince us utterly that she is in love with Africa, but our views of it are a little too stately to really feel the place.
January 06, 2014
The relationship of Karen and Denys is a prickly and, despite the era in which it is set, curiously modern one. It's also at the heart of this understated movie.
