She eventually comes to understand, as Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) tells her, that ''we're not owners here, Karen. She speaks of native servants as ''my Kikuyus.'' The plantation is ''my farm.'' The continent Though almost painfully self-aware, Miss Streep's Karen, accompanied by family china, crystal and silverware, sweeps grandly into Africa as if enteringĪ world created for her own intellectual stimulation.
You can also believe that she would be a most difficult woman to live with. The cool, dark, bewitching prose for which she later became known. Who here recoups any losses sustained by her performance in ''Plenty,'' the film has a Karen Blixen of such intelligence, intensity and obsessiveness that you can believe she would one day be able to write The creative process – that dramatically boring wild beast – remains safely chained up, off-screen. ''Out of Africa'' avoids the cliches of most movies about writers. Life of a Storyteller,'' and Errol Trzebinski's biography of Finch Hatton, ''Silence Will Speak.'' Was written by Kurt Luedtke, drawing on Miss Dinesen's superlative memoir, ''Out of Africa,'' and some of her other writings, as well as Judith Thurman's biography, ''Isak Dinesen: The It's this affair that provides the elusive heart of Sydney Pollack's ''Out of Africa,'' a big, physically elaborate but wispy movie that opens today at Loews State and other theaters. She fed him well and he took her up in his plane to show her the face of Africa from the air.
Unannounced and staying only as long as it suited him. Between trips back to England, Denys led wealthy tourists on safaris, hunted on his own, dabbled in various business deals and, from time to time, visited Karen on her farm, usually arriving – Karen remaining on the farm while Bror went off to pursue his living as a great white hunter, later becoming the model for Ernest Hemingway's Robert Wilson in ''The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.''Īfter Bror's departure, Karen developed what seems to have been the most profound emotional attachment of her life with Denys Finch Hatton, an English Earl's younger son, a charming aristocrat who had enough money to To Africa to marry the Swedish-born Baron Bror Blixen, who was her cousin as well as the twin brother of Hans Blixen, the man she really loved but who had jilted her.Īs man and wife, Bror and Karen were friends and occasional lovers, but Bror was an ebullient, unashamed philanderer, something that Karen seems to have accepted with equanimity until she contracted syphilis from him. From 1913 to 1931 Karen Blixen (1885-1962), the Danish writer who was later to publish under the name of Isak Dinesen, lived in British East Africa, now Kenya, where she ran a large coffee plantation.
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