Hemingway & Gellhorn

TV Movie
2012
TV-MA
2h 35m

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Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)

A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever aske... Read allA drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.

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6.3/10

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Won 2 Primetime Emmys
- 7 wins & 46 nominations total

Trivia
Lars Ulrich, who appeared in this movie, is in the band Metallica. One of Metallica's songs, "For Whom The Bell Tolls", is based on the Ernest Hemingway novel of the same name.

Goofs
Actors are seen smoking filtered cigarettes. These didn't become widely available until the 1960s.

Quotes
Martha Gellhorn: I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Connections
Featured in The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards (2012)

Soundtracks
Tutti Mi Chiamaro Bionda
(Traditional Song)
Performed by,Clive Owen, Nicole Kidman and Parker Posey

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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.