Out of Africa 1985 DVD9 PAL - iCMAL [TGx]



















In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.



Director: Sydney Pollack

Writers: Karen Blixen (based upon the following: "Out of Africa" and other writings by), Judith Thurman (based upon the following: "Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Story Teller" by)

Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer



What makes a good film? It's funny I lent my DVD of this to a mate recently and although she didn't hate it she didn't get it either. Which surprised me because, to me, there has never been any doubt in my mind about the beauty and quality of this film. Anyway I was surfing IMDb and decided to look at this page. There is (or was) a thread on the discussion board about whether this was a good or bad film, I clicked on it. I have never (in my modest surfing of this site) seen such a big thread. Surely a film that evokes that much passion (the majority of which was positive and defencive) has achieved something.



I'm not saying that Out of Africa is the best film I've ever seen (I've yet to see that one!) but I think I can safely say that it has secured a place for itself both in cinematic history and the future of entertainment. You see at it heart it is a well made, timeless epic.



Yes there will always be the people who take exception to the accents, dislike the ending or believes it drags on for too long, but that's their lost, I can't help thinking they haven't been patient enough (and this annoys me).



You see the thing is in many ways the endless beauty of this film lies in its subtleties. Yes you have Meryl Streep and Redford flanked by the scenery and music, but for me it's the things like Pollock's direction, Michael Kitchen's performance and Karen's interaction with member's of the tribe that make the film.



Part of me wants to tie my mate to a chair and make her sit and watch this until she gets it. The other half is slightly relieved, because I feel that with her rejection this film is ever so slightly more exclusively mine, and I know that although I'm still only young I will always have time a space for it!







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Duration                                 : 2 h 34 min

00:00:00.000                             : Chapter 1

00:04:21.600                             : Chapter 2

00:07:13.760                             : Chapter 3

00:10:57.440                             : Chapter 4

00:16:34.920                             : Chapter 5

00:21:34.480                             : Chapter 6

00:26:55.600                             : Chapter 7

00:35:40.000                             : Chapter 8

00:41:39.680                             : Chapter 9

00:55:14.440                             : Chapter 10

01:16:11.000                             : Chapter 11

01:24:51.880                             : Chapter 12

01:41:41.800                             : Chapter 13

01:47:26.800                             : Chapter 14

02:05:42.000                             : Chapter 15

02:19:20.040                             : Chapter 16

02:26:24.480                             : Chapter 17

02:31:35.800                             : Chapter 18

02:34:16.280                             : Chapter 19

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