Hemingway & Gellhorn

2012

Action / Biography / Drama / Romance

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 49 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 11138 11.1K

infidelity journalist spanish civil war (1936-39) biography europe love

Plot summary

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

Director

Philip Kaufman Photo
Philip Kaufman

Top cast

Connie Nielsen Photo
Connie Nielsen as Tall Blonde Woman
Nicole Kidman Photo
Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn
Parker Posey Photo
Parker Posey as Mary Welsh Hemingway
Jeffrey Jones Photo
Jeffrey Jones as Charles Colebaugh
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.39 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 34 min
Seeds 3
2.58 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 34 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lupanarreview 6 / 10

Not engaging

Two great actors and a good rea life story, but it just doesn't work. For me it was how artificial and americanized it felt. The Spain they paint is clearly a set, not at all Madrid but a romantic idea of someone who doesn't know it. Everyone speaks in English, then the cliché of the gorgeous flamenco singer, etc. It just didn't feel authentic at all. It's hard to get into the story which has a lot of common places - and Hemingway is such a macho that he makes it really hard to root for their relationship.
Reviewed by mille-383-947313 5 / 10

Ambitious but without direction

The movie left me flat. I was interested in the history and intrigued to see how it was portrayed. Skipping back and forth between the sepia, black and white and colour formats was disruptive. Further I don't think that the two principals did their roles justice. Like Hemingway they tried, almost painfully at times, to be larger than life and it resulted in inconsistent portrayals of these remarkable characters....both are good actors...probably a function of bad direction. The love affair didn't work at all....I guess a combination of things got in the way of my enjoying the movie. Several times I commented "this is not a very good flick" as we watched...and yet we watched it to the end...knowing how it would end....a strange viewing experience. I wanted it to be better and it had such potential to be so.
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