Out of Africa
Time Out says
Aptly described in TO as a Safari Park movie; it's hard to imagine how even an untalented director could make the landscape here look less than ravishing, and Pollack is certainly better than untalented. As to the rest: Meryl gets to try a Danish accent this time as Karen Blixen, the author whose accounts of farming in Africa are the basis of the film. In Brandauer, as her pox-ridden husband, she has met her match in the ham stakes. And in Redford, as the Etonian adventurer who becomes her lover, she is bettered by the 'blank sponge' effect; for once his bland charm actually has a use. For all that it may come out of Africa, the film's final destination is not many miles from Disneyland. CPea.Author: CPea
Release details
UK release:
1985
Duration:
162 mins
Cast and crew
Cast:
Malick Bowens, Stephen Kinyanjui, Joseph Thiaka, Meryl Streep, Michael Kitchen, Michael Gough, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Robert Redford, Graham Crowden, Suzanna Hamilton, Rachel Kempson, Leslie Phillips
Editor:
Pembroke Herring, Frederick Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Sheldon Kahn
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