The best land available to them was in the so-called 'white highlands' of Kenya, so high up the air was cooler and there were fewer insects, and some luck could be had with cattle and certain crops. The movie takes place during the strange blip in history when the countries of East Africa - Kenya, Uganda, the Rhodesias - were attracting waves of European settlers discontented with life at home in the years around World War I. Brandauer: 'You should have asked permission.' Redford: 'I did. He turns up once more asking for money, after Redford has moved his things into the baroness' farmhouse. After he gives her syphills and she returns to Denmark for treatment, she is just barely able to tolerate his behavior - after all, he did not ask to marry her - until a New Year's Eve when he flaunts his infidelity, and she asks him to move out. He is a smiling, smooth faced enigmatic man who likes her well enough, after his fashion, but never seems quite equal to her spirit. In addition to the people Streep and Redford play, there is a third major character, Bror, the man she marries, played by Klaus Maria Brandmuer. What we have here is an old-fashioned, intelligent, thoughtful love story, told with enough care and attention that we really get involved in the passions among the characters. Her books are glories - especially Out of Africa and Seven Gothic Tales - but they are not the entire inspiration for this movie.

The movie is based on the life and writings of Baroness Karen Blixen, a Danish woman who, despairing that she would be single forever, married her lover's brother, moved out to Kenya in East Africa, ran a coffee plantation on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and later, when the plantation was bankrupt and the dream was finshed, wrote books about her experiences under the name Isak Dinesan. These are high-voltage stars, and when their chemistry is wrong for romances (as Streep's was for ' Falling in Love,' and Redford's was for ' The Natural'), it is very wrong. If you can sense the passion in that scene, then you may share my emjoyment of 'Out of Africa,' which is one of the great recent epic romances. After the man and woman are safe, the man sees that the woman has bitten her lip in anxiety. But then a lion unexpectedly charges from another direction, and it is up to the baroness to fell it, with one shot that must not miss, and does not.

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