{"id":760,"date":"2012-05-21T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/05\/owen-and-kidman-as-hemingway-and-gellhorn.html"},"modified":"2012-05-21T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:50:00","slug":"owen-and-kidman-as-hemingway-and-gellhorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/05\/owen-and-kidman-as-hemingway-and-gellhorn.html","title":{"rendered":"Owen and Kidman as Hemingway and Gellhorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>SOMETIMES, in this business, you have to do things you don’t want to do — deal with unpleasant people, write about a production that bores you to tears. Other times, you get to talk to Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman about Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, the strong-willed war correspondent who would hate to be remembered at Papa’s third wife.<\/p>\n

Later this month, HBO will broadcast a film, Hemingway & Gellhorn<\/i>, about the two writers and their ferocious love affair against the background of the churn of world politics. Here<\/a> is my story, for which I interviewed the two actors as well as Philip Kaufman, director of The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>“There was this five-, six-year tussle with her,” Kaufman told me. “It’s a very mythical kind of relationship they had: She’s a Hemingway heroine. The problem being: Is that what he really wanted in real life?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I expected Kaufman and Owen (whose Children of Men<\/i> is one of my favorite movies) to be intelligent and articulate. But Kidman really impressed me — she had more depth, seriousness, and curiosity to her than I would have guessed. It’s the business of an actor to be likable, unpretentious, etc — but you can’t fake smarts.<\/p>\n

In any case, be curious what my readers make of the film, which uses a number of different film stocks to recreate the feel of several different eras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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