Upon receiving the agonizing news of Denys Finch Hatton’s fatal plane crash, Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) stands at his hilltop grave to deliver a quiet, heartbreaking eulogy that releases him back to the African wild. Director Sydney Pollack captures this devastating farewell with haunting poetic grace, allowing Meryl Streep’s quiet collapse of composure to give way to a breathtaking display of aristocratic restraint and profound loss.
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In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness attempts to establish a coffee plantation while trapped in a convenient, loveless marriage. Her life changes forever when she falls passionately in love with an enigmatic, free-spirited big-game hunter who refuses to be tamed by societal expectations.
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