OUT OF AFRICA

starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep (1985)

About once every year when I am restless and looking for something good, really good, to watch, I reach for one of the all time great movies, Out of Africa with maybe the finest work ever done by both Meryl and Bob.

This is an epic movie.  It won the big awards as it should have: Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Set Decoration, Best Musical Score, Best Sound, and Best Screenwriting. 

Further, Out of Africa was nominated for: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Costume, and Best Film Editing

Suffice it to say that Out of Africa is a triumph of the human spirit.  It is grand, it is large; a tour de force and very well worth your seeing, or seeing again.  I love the scene where Meryl’s character, Baroness Von Blixen surprises a lion in the Kenyan brush.  She implores Robert Redford to shoot the beast and the dialogue and tension are memorable.  And that is just one of a great many rather extraordinary scenes we are part of, in this riveting and well told story.  I give it five HighFives, “and it goes well with popcorn.”    HL