Movie #1194 "Hemingway & Gelhorn" -- I had read "Paris Wife" about Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, and I was intrigued to continue to his second --- didn't get a lot more info on this man --- saw him drinking a lot, fishing for big fish, smoking cigars, living hard, writing hard, being loud and being manly. I was impressed with what Clive Owen did to get across what I think to be a shallow character and one I would not ever want to meet -- there was no trace of his Owen's accent, and he seemed to look bigger in the way he walked and talked so I thought it was good acting here, along with Nicole Kidman who is always fun to watch. The film is really centered on her because the older Gelhorn (all makeup and looking old and hardened) is narrating and looking back on this tumultuous union with the famous writer. The film gets across the tumultuous part of the affair with the sex scenes, which are very explicit and plentiful --- but I wanted to know more about their daily lives --- it seemed they were always in a war, always around shooting and tenseness and that appeared to be a turn on to them and it added to their sex life, but I was never sure why they continued. The film short suited Gelhorn's efforts at finding the truth in the story as a journalist and her motivation. So, as a result, it seemed a lot of sex scenes and rage scenes and war scenes but not well connected. The second half of the film I found better than the first half because that's when Gelhorn started going back to the war for her writing and meanwhile you could see him writing "For Whom the Bell Tolls". I guess I wanted more of the second half of the movie and less of the first half --- It isn't a necessary film to watch at all, so I would recommend it to very few people -- probably only to those who want to see a film that easily moves from black and white to sepia to color for effect --- some nice shots here!
I would give it 3 stars out of 5.
HEMINGWAY & GELHORN
2012 2 hr and 34min
When literary genius Ernest Hemingway met pioneering war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, the sparks flew -- and continued to fly during their fiery roller coaster marriage as they hobnobbed with the literary and Hollywood elite of their time.
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