An HBO TV movie on the romance and marriage between Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman). It's a tempestuous affair spanning many years through many war-torn countries ending in their divorce.
I can't really comment on its accuracy, and I can see many Hemingway fans hating this interpretation. Gellhorn is portrayed as a long suffering lover/wife of Hemingway's volatile selfishness. It probably fits better as a Lifetime movie. That's not to say that the story isn't true. It's just that it seems to be simplified.
Philip Kaufman does a distracting thing where he adds the actors into stock news footage of that era. The problem is that it's too jarring. The actors look out of place in these footages. The process is not done perfectly and the movie suffers for it. It's questionable even if he had this style down pat. However it is understandable considering the big production that would otherwise be needed for those big settings.
The actors are top rate. They do the work beautifully. Again I can't comment on its accuracy of the portrayals. But at least they gave the characters the chance to be bigger than cardboard cutouts.
I can't really comment on its accuracy, and I can see many Hemingway fans hating this interpretation. Gellhorn is portrayed as a long suffering lover/wife of Hemingway's volatile selfishness. It probably fits better as a Lifetime movie. That's not to say that the story isn't true. It's just that it seems to be simplified.
Philip Kaufman does a distracting thing where he adds the actors into stock news footage of that era. The problem is that it's too jarring. The actors look out of place in these footages. The process is not done perfectly and the movie suffers for it. It's questionable even if he had this style down pat. However it is understandable considering the big production that would otherwise be needed for those big settings.
The actors are top rate. They do the work beautifully. Again I can't comment on its accuracy of the portrayals. But at least they gave the characters the chance to be bigger than cardboard cutouts.