Synopsis
We were good in war. And when there was no war, we made our own.
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
2012 Directed by Philip Kaufman
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Nicole Kidman Clive Owen David Strathairn Rodrigo Santoro Molly Parker Parker Posey Tony Shalhoub Santiago Cabrera Lars Ulrich Peter Coyote Joan Chen Saverio Guerra Mark Pellegrino Remy Auberjonois Anthony Brandon Wong Keone Young Larry Tse Alfred Rubin Thompson Aitor Inarra Eric Michael Roy Edin Gali Stephanie Bastos Malcolm Brownson Hugh Helm William Hall Angela Tse Agostino Crotti Gloria Laino David Gutierrez Show All…
James Gandolfini Peter Kaufman Trish Hofmann Barbara Turner Nancy Sanders Alexandra E. Ryan Mark Armstrong
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look i know Hemingway was horny but it's just not realistic that he would fuck someone while the building they're in is being bombed by fascist military
"Do I need to tell you what these bastards could do to a big creamy bitch like you in the dark?"
Philip Kaufman is an odious filmmaker. In the thirty years since The Right Stuff the man hasn't made a single decent picture, reducing nearly all of his stories to infantile sexual trysts (Quills, Henry & June, Unbearable Lightness Of Being) while at the same time maintaining pretensions that they are about far more. I'm still baffled he couldn't find a way to stage a giant orgy for all the astronauts in his Oscar winning film and only claim to fame. In his new film Hemingway & Gellhorn, relegated to HBO because it is simply not worthy of the big screen, the…
Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a made-for-TV movie about Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn. Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen make anything their in better and this is no exception. They make an otherwise standard and slightly boring biopic/romance into something at least watchable and mildly engaging even if it’s length is unbelievably excessive. Kidman in particular is really great and the movie’s made well enough but I wouldn’t really recommend this to anyone outside Kidman completionists. For some reason I thought this was from the 90’s or early 2000’s, so I was surprised to see it’s not even a full decade old yet.
An ill advised rewatch.
Could it really be as bad as I recalled?
Well yes, it could actually. In my original review I discussed the poor dialogue, the atrocious direction and how the only real star of the piece was Nicole Kidman's arse. I still stand by this decision.
This two and a half monstrosity is littered with dialogue like 'Oh look, that's Ernest Hemingway' always a bad sign for any biopic. It really doesn't help that Clive Owen cannot convince as Papa at all; he cannot embody the charismatic alpha maleness that the role requires. The script is really appalling; three songs in the opening ten minutes, what is this a musical? The direction is absurd. Quite why Kaufman…
Like most Kaufman’s pieces of intellectual kitsch, it is at best the tasteless it gets. A stupid movie for smart people that works when it recognize that and doesn’t when it does not. (But the Dachau scene really is a what they were thinking embarassement). It hilarious tries to pretend it is a 2012 revisionist movie that ends by having Kidman turn down a documentary crew asking about her famous ex husband and announcing she is not a footnote after over 2 hours of treating her as interesting due to their relationship. A bad movie, but for all its dull parts, better than its reviewers. Owen is an enjoyable hammy Hemingway. Some of the dumbest bits like the Duvall cameo are fun. So is every time someone like Dos Passos gets introduced. Co-starring Lars Ulrich as Joris Ivens and that should say it all.
There's a lot of bad things about this movie (the dialogue, direction, etc) but i think the worst was the found footage. I really don't understand what compelled the makers of this movie to use horrific found footage and just... superimpose Nicole Kidman onto it? I don't understand what it added to the story and it feels like a cheap distasteful gimmick.
The actors did pretty well with what they were given but even that wasn't enough to save this movie unfortunately.
"I do not consider myself a footnote in someone else's life." - Gellhorn
I can't tell if the filmmakers were aware that they were making her into just that, but that's certainly how it turned out. The only reason we watch, the only reason anyone made a movie with Gellhorn in it is because of her connection with Hemingway.
Being a fan of Hemingway and films about writers in general, I really wanted to like this one. The director spends so much effort trying to pull us in with silly little tricks (shifting filters, trying to insert our characters into historical footage, etc) that it's hard to get very invested in the story. It's a real tragedy because the story…
Caricatures of Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, played by Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman with horribly inconsistent accents and occasionally in wretched old age makeup and other times really awkwardly and obviously superimposed into archival footage, have ludicrous sex and poorly written conversations and fights for 2.5 punishing, interminable hours. And when you think it can't get any worse, they use actual footage of the slaughtered at Dachau and Auschwitz as a prelude to Nicole Kidman running stupidly into the forest and throwing herself to the ground in disgust at what humanity has become. Terrible, but at least it's sometimes laughable otherwise. I could list a million things that are historically inaccurate about this colossal stinker, but the insinuation that John Dos Passos was gay and sexually attracted to one of the leaders of the Spanish resistance is among its weirder points of departure from the historical record. The ending must be seen to be believed.
Bom, estou surpreso, eu particularmente não estava esperando exatamente nada deste filme, só assisti pela Nicole Kidman, e olha, acabei me surpreendendo positivamente.
O longa tem vários problemas, e, talvez, por ser um filme para a TV, isso seja uma das justificativas para isso.
Eu, particularmente, me mantive interessado pela história o tempo inteiro, mesmo com o filme tendo uma duração demasiadamente longa, o que não foi um problema para mim, mas, pode ser para muitas pessoas.
A Nicole Kidman entregou uma atuação estupenda aqui, como já é de costume, e não atoa ela carrega esse filme todinho nas costas. A interpretação que ela deu para a Martha Gellhorn foi muito significativa.
Para quem não estava esperando nada, Hemingway & Gellhorn foi uma baita surpresa.