Hemingway & Gellhorn
Writers make excellent lovers because they are amazing at climaxes.
However, when they are two writers in the relationship - as in this biography - the plot gets lost.
After a brief but memorable encounter in a Florida watering hole, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) and celebrated author Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) become smitten.
Their paths don't across again until the Spanish Civil War. This time Gellhorn is covering it for Collier's magazine, while Hemingway is narrating a leftist propaganda picture.
During a bombing raid, the two share a hotel room that ultimately ignites their volatile partnership.
But with Gellhorn's star on the rise and Hemingway feeling slighted, he strikes out in a sadistic manner.
A torrid tale of competing companions, Hemingway and Gellhorn are fascinating characters, but their portrayals, and the film's overall aesthetic, can be hammy.
Incidentally, writer couples mainly squabbling about who gets to off themselves first.
Yellow Light
vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca
Writers make excellent lovers because they are amazing at climaxes.
However, when they are two writers in the relationship - as in this biography - the plot gets lost.
After a brief but memorable encounter in a Florida watering hole, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) and celebrated author Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) become smitten.
Their paths don't across again until the Spanish Civil War. This time Gellhorn is covering it for Collier's magazine, while Hemingway is narrating a leftist propaganda picture.
During a bombing raid, the two share a hotel room that ultimately ignites their volatile partnership.
But with Gellhorn's star on the rise and Hemingway feeling slighted, he strikes out in a sadistic manner.
A torrid tale of competing companions, Hemingway and Gellhorn are fascinating characters, but their portrayals, and the film's overall aesthetic, can be hammy.
Incidentally, writer couples mainly squabbling about who gets to off themselves first.
Yellow Light
vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca