My second Phil Kaufman film in 6 hours really was anti-climactic seeing as the plot was right up my alley-Hemingway played by Clive Owen, Kidman's high n' tights, and portrayals of Robert Capa and Orson Welles-as Judge Reinhold would say, 'No Dice.' Gotta tell ya...this thing is overbloated at 155min and the idea to shoot in SF doubling for about 50 other locations doesn't work at all. The constant green screening to put the characters into old stock footage really sucks too-and who the fuck is gonna buy Lars Ulrich as a newsreel director/cameraman? Hold on...Hemingway was a drunk? I never knew that one! They actually have the balls to re-inact Capa's famous spanish soldier being killed and then he somehow vanishes from the film all together. Sloppy.

"‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’ ziet er stijlvol uit (de Nederlander Rogier Stoffers is verantwoordelijk voor de cinematografie) en Owen en Kidman vormen een mooi koppel. De grootste ster van deze miniserie is echter de stad San Francisco, die stand-in was voor alle (!) locaties waar het heetgebakerde schrijversduo gedurende hun huwelijk neerstreek."

Movie has a lot of great actors, who all do a great job. Unfortunately the relationship between Hemingway and Gellhorn didn't work for me. Which is a problem as the movie entirely replies on it. Individually they are very interesting though.

Also the movie tries to merge original footage with movie footage which do not always flood over as well.

If you're into Hemingway or Gellhorn it probably merits a viewing...

Nav tā, ka man nepatiktu Hemingveja daiļrade. Viņa stāstiņi ir ļoti labi. Romāni gan man liekas par garu un par vienmuļu, bet kopumā ir ok. Taču šis gabals kaitina. Gan bezgalīgā hronometrāža, gan Klaivs Ovens kā Hemingvejs gan Kidmena kā Gilenhorna, gan tie pseidovēsturiskie "dokumentālie" kadri visos lēto fotoaplikāciju retro toņos, gan uzspēlētais filmas ritms un noskaņa.
Liekas, ka Hemingvejs vislaik rijis kaut kādas patriotiskās uzmundrinošās tabletes, baltā mētelī skraidījis pa ierakumiem un vakaros aizlējis aci un runājis patosainu sviestu. Pa starpām satusējis ar kara repotieri Gilenhornu kura šo iedvesmoja sarakstīt "Kam skanēs zvans" un kura esot vienīgā kura pieparsījusi šķiršanos no pompozā rakstnieka.
Neņemos spriest cik tur vēstures, patiesības un tādā garā, bet visa kā šajā filmā ir daudz par daudz.
Jā un te pie lomas ticis arī Metallica bungu vīrs Lars Ulriks.
Nē, tas nenozīmē, ka skaņu celiņā ir Metallica.
Pretenciozs kino.

Not good

Holy uneven tone. Owen is miscast (or poorly directed?), Kidman fares better. Only ok.

Chato e cansativo.

My second Phil Kaufman film in 6 hours really was anti-climactic seeing as the plot was right up my alley-Hemingway played by Clive Owen, Kidman's high n' tights, and portrayals of Robert Capa and Orson Welles-as Judge Reinhold would say, 'No Dice.' Gotta tell ya...this thing is overbloated at 155min and the idea to shoot in SF doubling for about 50 other locations doesn't work at all. The constant green screening to put the characters into old stock footage really sucks too-and who the fuck is gonna buy Lars Ulrich as a newsreel director/cameraman? Hold on...Hemingway was a drunk? I never knew that one! They actually have the balls to re-inact Capa's famous spanish soldier being killed and then he somehow vanishes from the film all together. Sloppy.

poor nicole

Film #1 of "RNG January".

First movie of the year.. just my luck it landed on a 2 1/2 hour movie I had no interest in watching I was so close to re-rolling it but I promised I wouldn't cheat!

This was a long boring uninteresting drag, hopefully i'll have better luck or this month will be tortue.