Out of Africa

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    Out of Africa
    1985

    Synopsis

    Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.

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    Cast

    • Robert RedfordDenys George Finch Hatton
    • Meryl StreepKaren Christence Dinesen Blixen
    • Klaus Maria BrandauerBaron Bror Blixen/Baron Hans Blixen
    • Michael KitchenBerkeley Cole
    • Malick BowensFarah
    • Michael GoughLord Delamere
    • Suzanna HamiltonFelicity
    • Rachel KempsonLady Belfield
    • Graham CrowdenLord Belfield
    • Leslie PhillipsSir Joseph

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Out of Africa is a great movie to look at, breathtakingly filmed on location. It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology.
    • 90

      Time

      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.
    • 90

      New York Daily News

      Out of Africa is still an absolute knockout. It provides such an enchanting glimpse of the paradise that Dinesen tragically lost that audiences will completely understand her other grand passion for Africa itself.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      Ultimately this is a film of rare and pleasing smoothness—Hollywood as it was meant to be.
    • 80

      The New Republic

      Meryl Streep is back in top form. This means that her performance in Out of Africa is at the highest level of acting in film today. Also, since she is Streep, it means that a return to form is not a return: she has realized a character utterly different from any she has done before.
    • 75

      Orlando Sentinel

      This good and gentle film, directed by Sydney Pollack (Tootsie), might have been fashioned to make the most of Streep's natural qualities of independence, humor and sophistication (bordering on snobbishness) and her exciting suggestion of untrustworthiness.
    • 63

      Chicago Tribune

      It`s a shame to have to knock the otherwise beautiful and haunting picture, but when you`re watching a love story and you can`t stand the character who is being loved, that makes for a very frustrating movie-going experience.
    • 60

      Empire

      Just as the film captures a world (Imperialism, hunting, colonialism) that has faded away, so this film feels like one of the last of it's kind.

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