Amazon.com Essentials:
Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous and
emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen
Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to
Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls
for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in
developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of
Africa and in the romantic tone surrounding Blixen's gradual discovery
of her life and voice. One downside: while we may all love Redford, he
is as convincingly British as Kevin Costner is in Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves. --Tom Keogh
