My fourth film submission for consideration is Out of Africa. It's long. It's been out there for years and years (best picture 1985). But, it is beautiful. When the Baroness Blixen wrote her account of her time in Africa as a plantation landowner, farmer, wife, mistress, and friend, it was indeed a novelty. The good Baroness wrote about things that weren't really spoken of in polite society, it's true, but it is also true that she opened up the entire continent of Africa for readers who would never go there. Through her eyes and experiences, the reader came to know Africa like it had never been known before or since.
The film captures it all beautifully and I always find myself totally succumbing to the cadence and beauty that unfolds scene after scene after scene. Even now, I can hear "I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills..." and be totally swept away in anticipation of watching it again.
You can watch the trailer here if you would like a little preview, but it captures so little of the real essence, that I hesitate to even post the link. Watch the film, and if you like it, read more of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen's pen name)...I think I have read almost everything she ever wrote and have never ever been disappointed in a bit of it.