In Love and War Reviews
The quite real story of the war's adventure of Hemingway that inspired His roman "A Farewell to Arms"
Butchering the young life of Ernest Hemingway with dull writing and wooden acting, In Love and War marks a low point for director Richard Attenborough.
This happens to be my favourite film of all time. I know it's not trendy to like romance or heartbreak but here we are. Sandra Bullock's most beautifully restrained performance - and who wouldn't cry at the love scene or the last sequence at the lake? Ignore the critics, this is a classic for all romantics.
Bullock is consistently great. O'Donnell is consistently bland. If this had a better script, like O'Donnell's Scent of a Woman, then it could have raised the limited abilities of Chris O'Donnell, but instead we got this. Unless you're a big huge fan of 1990s period melodrama, then skip this one.
I don't know if it is the story or the script, but the film is ridiculously predictable and melodramatic.
It's hard to know what critics are thinking sometimes. This is an immersive WW1 tale based on 2 real people, one Ernest Hemingway. It's a worthwhile subject considering "A Farewell to Arms" includes some of what's portrayed in this film. The pictures & beautiful Fenton soundtrack are transportive to another time & place. Even more interesting is Bullock's soft, yielded, even submissive performance, one of her best against type as an actress who can drive a speeding bus. This picture has some things in common with PBS's "Crimson Field" but is less complicated. It's a historical docudrama. As such, it hangs in there with the other tales of the disaster that was WW1.
This movie couldn't hold my attention at all. It's not so much that anything was bad so much as everything was so un-spectacular and mellow.
Aside from its dullness, There's nothing very bad about In Love And War, but I don't want to strain myself trying to think of something good about it. *1.5/4*
kinda depressing, and maybe i'm not that familiar about hemingway to know whether if this was as good as it could've been.
Muy bonita pelicula del primer amor de Ernest Hemingway, donde al final te deja pensando que puede mas el orgullo o el verdadero amor???