Hemingway & Gellhorn
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| Directed by | Philip Kaufman |
| Produced by | Peter Kaufman Trish Hoffman James Gandolfini Alexandra Ryan Barbara Turner |
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Jerry Stahl Barbara Turner |
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Nicole Kidman Clive Owen |
| Music by | Javier Navarrete |
| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
| Edited by | Walter Murch |
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154 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14 million |
Hemingway & Gellhorn is an HBO biopic film about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn and her husband, writer Ernest Hemingway. It was directed by Philip Kaufman, and first aired on HBO on May 28, 2012.
Telling the story of one of America’s most famous literary couples, the movie begins in 1936 when the pair meet for the first time in a chance encounter in a Key West bar in Florida. They encounter each other again a year later in Spain, while both are covering the Spanish Civil War, and staying in the same hotel on the same floor. Initially, Gellhorn resists romantic advances made by the famous author, but during a bombing raid, the two find themselves trapped alone in the same room, and lust overcomes them. They become lovers, and stay in Spain until 1939. Hemingway collaborates with Joris Ivens to produce The Spanish Earth. In 1940 Hemingway divorces his second wife so that he and Gellhorn can be married. He credits her with having inspired him to write the novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and dedicates the work to her. Over time, however, Gellhorn becomes more prominent in her own right, leading to certain career jealousies between the two. Gellhorn leaves Hemingway to go to Finland to cover the Winter War by herself. When she return to the Lookout Farm in Havana, Hemingway tells her that he has divorced Pauline. The two marry and, together, travel to China to cover the bombing attacks by Japan. In China, they interview Chiang Kai-shek and his spouse. Gellhorn is horrified after visiting an opium den. Chiang Kai-shek is fighting the Chinese Communists and Japanese invaders. The two secretly visit Zhou Enlai. Lastly, in 1945, Gellhorn became the only one of Hemingway's four wives to ask him for a divorce.
Pat Jackson, the film's sound effects editor, said that the biggest challenge in doing sound for the film was "making the archival footage and the live-action footage shot locally appear seamless."
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