Sweeping old fashioned love story/drama. Great cast with a gorgeous score. A bit slow but after seeing it again for the first time in 25+ years still a great watch.
Did you notice there was a whole lot of leaving and coming back? Perhaps, if they SHOWED us what the hell was happening when they left it might have made for a more exciting movie!
Like SHOW us some fighting in the war and SHOW us Deny's plane crash and SHOW us what Bror was doing on the side and so forth
- a hell of a lot of money was spent to make this look like a beautiful period piece-and it was beautiful (would love to see it on an IMAX screen) but c'mon-couldn't they spend a few extra bucks? I mean did they not see Lawrence of Arabia and maybe have a little inspiration? SHOW me the money!....wait, didn't somebody already say that?...oh well...
Very lovely visually - handsome Redford, beautiful Streep and wonderful cinematography - but I expected so much more from such a highly praised movie. It wasn't boring but it wasn't breathtaking either.
We (Bangladesh) are one of victim of British colonization too. So many books written by them about their experience here like this “Out of Africa”… the whole things just irritate me.
Some good dialogue, and Streep is great as ever, but disappointingly glosses over the brutal realities of colonial occupation; black African characters barely even get to speak, and the movie seems to expect us to admire Streep's quest to protect "my Gikuyu" instead of acknowledging her and her husband as the invaders and land thieves they are. (Even Dinesen's original book was much more interested in its Gikuyu characters than this movie.) Hopefully Hollywood will one day start making movies about Africa with African main characters instead of European transplants. Something like Gikuyu author Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat would be a great counterpoint to this one.
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Ebbywebby
Well, this was the final Best Picture of the past 60 years that I hadn't seen yet. Not really worth the wait. Kind of a Harlequin romance plus lions.That hair-washing scene is pure porn for Robert Redford swooners.
Earring72
Sweeping old fashioned love story/drama. Great cast with a gorgeous score. A bit slow but after seeing it again for the first time in 25+ years still a great watch.Emaronh
The most boring movie ever made!locovoco
Did you notice there was a whole lot of leaving and coming back? Perhaps, if they SHOWED us what the hell was happening when they left it might have made for a more exciting movie!nicolaskrizan
archetypal oscar materialhttps://beyond1001movies.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/backtrack-out-of-africa-1985/
ClassicLady
Very lovely visually - handsome Redford, beautiful Streep and wonderful cinematography - but I expected so much more from such a highly praised movie. It wasn't boring but it wasn't breathtaking either.toopsy
it's a beautmaruf_ur
We (Bangladesh) are one of victim of British colonization too. So many books written by them about their experience here like this “Out of Africa”… the whole things just irritate me.Carota
"too much meryl streep"? this combination of words is invalid.
Prof. Lumpcicle
Gee, Africa sure is purty!george4mon
too long, too boring.jhhayes
I completely agree with Khazar.Fortitudine
A feast for the eyes.Shazaaaam
Some good dialogue, and Streep is great as ever, but disappointingly glosses over the brutal realities of colonial occupation; black African characters barely even get to speak, and the movie seems to expect us to admire Streep's quest to protect "my Gikuyu" instead of acknowledging her and her husband as the invaders and land thieves they are. (Even Dinesen's original book was much more interested in its Gikuyu characters than this movie.) Hopefully Hollywood will one day start making movies about Africa with African main characters instead of European transplants. Something like Gikuyu author Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat would be a great counterpoint to this one.rwj
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