![]() ![]() She’s quite a character: outspoken, covetous of her civilized pleasures even when camping in the bush on safari, and a fearless equal to the swashbuckling Denys. Years later, in scenes not shown in the film, she took the mannish pen name of Isak Dinesen and wrote about her experiences there. She adapts to the new culture, with respect for the tribes people, tames the land and falls in love with an adventurer, Denys Finch Hatton (Redford), once her womanizing husband is told to pack his bags. Karen Blixen (Streep), Danish-born, restless and unconventional, comes to Kenya, East Africa, in 1913 to marry a baron for the sake of his title and to farm. What the film withholds is the expected magic of her pairing with Robert Redford, and that is its major downfall. ![]() What Out of Africa, a romantic adventure based on a courageous woman writer’s life, has to offer is lush African scenery and the wonderful Meryl Streep. ![]()
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