Review №3

In Love and War

I would like to speak on “In Love and War” which is a 1996 romance drama film based on the book, Hemingway in Love and War, starring Chris O'Donnell, Sandra Bullock and others. The director is Richard Attenborough and its genre is Biography, drama, romance. The setting of the story is Italy and the USA.

Let me pass on to the plot. The young reporter Ernest Hemingway was sent to Italy as a soldier where he was wounded and sent to a military hospital. There he was nursed by Agnes von Kurowsky. They fell in love with each other and the woman promised to marry him after the war ends.  Ernest returned to the United States while Agnes continued working as a nurse in Italy. She decided that her relation with Hemingway was a mistake and wrote him about it. Agnes was going to get married in Venice but changed her mind and was back to the USA. She visited Ernest and told about her love to him but the man rejected her love because she had hurt him earlier. They will never meet again.

I would like to note the acting. I think that Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock were really good in their roles. I believed in their not love but passion. Their feelings, desires were clearly seen in their faces, voices. The last scene is a nice example of conveying of real feelings.

Besides, my favorite episode is the last one when Agnes came to Ernest. She realized her mistake and was ready to share her life with him but Ernest with his pride could not forgive her. I think that it is the most important moment in the whole film where the characters of the heroes become clear for us. I can say that Ernest did not love her because he did not stop Agnes when she went away. His young age and a lack of experience helped him to make his mistake.  

In conclusion I would like to say that the film impressed me and opened Hemingway from a new side which I had not signed out earlier. Costumes and decorations created the atmosphere of the war and the born of love during the time of death was inspiring.