Papa: Hemingway in Cuba. New Movie.

[Tiki Tom]

The legend continues.

Papa: Hemingway in Cuba hits theaters on April 29.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnTrjYUXvY

Article:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ingway-havana-hollywood-us-cuba-trade-embargo

Judging by the trailer, I’m not sure how historically accurate it will be. (Papa running guns?) Won’t stop me from seeing it however. Something to look forward to.


If that isn’t enough, apparently Pierce Brosnan is also taking a whack at Hemingway. I can’t wait to hear his American accent:

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacket...daptation-hemingway-novel-20160209-story.html

 

[Tiki Tom]

The Sonoma Film Festival has given "Papa" it's Best Picture award.

http://cubajournal.co/papa-hemingway-in-cuba-wins-best-picture-at-sonoma/

 

[belfastboy]

That is great. I wonder if the Cubans allowed them to film at Finca Vigia, outside Havana? Did they build a replica of his boat Pilar? I was in Havana few years ago and one of the highlights was the visit to his Finca. Truly a moment frozen in time although I read the Cubans spruced it all up for Obama's visit and I fear may have spoiled the authenticity of its run down presence. Also visited his gravesite in Ketchum Idaho. Very solemn, reverent day for me and the house and grave, totally understated.

 

[belfastboy]

In the Guardian article it states the Finca is in Havana....no it is not. It is a 30 minute drive from Havana.

 

[MisterCairo]

The Guardian made an error?!

 

[Tiki Tom]

Early reviews have generally not been good. However, this review is a bit more sympathetic and gives the film the benefit of the doubt.

http://buffalo.com/2016/04/28/featured/a-tough-but-tender-portrait-of-ernest-hemingway-in-decline/

"What works in “Papa” is the tender awkwardness of the young reporter’s hero worship of Ernest Hemingway, one of the most admired writers who ever lived. The most interesting thing by far when all of America was presumed to be in Hemingway’s literary shadow is the degree to which young writers attached themselves to his ideas of what writers’ lives and sentences should look like. (Use few words, run with bulls, sling the bull in cafes, get photographed by Life magazine if possible.)

That there was a real – and by this time tortured – writer underneath all that makes for a good story when the teller is someone whose hopeless thrall to his idol is turning into disillusionment and pity."​

 

[emigran]

I wonder how his Panama looks...!?!?

 

[EngProf]

The legend continues.

Papa: Hemingway in Cuba hits theaters on April 29.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPnTrjYUXvY

Article:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ingway-havana-hollywood-us-cuba-trade-embargo

Judging by the trailer, I’m not sure how historically accurate it will be. (Papa running guns?) Won’t stop me from seeing it however. Something to look forward to.


If that isn’t enough, apparently Pierce Brosnan is also taking a whack at Hemingway. I can’t wait to hear his American accent:

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacket...daptation-hemingway-novel-20160209-story.html

I can't access the trailer so I don't know what it says about Papa and gun-running, but I do know that he had an affinity for firearms. He came close to losing his WWII war-correspondent credentials for carrying a Thompson submachine gun and going out on patrol with the French Resistance. A less-famous person would not have been able to get away with it.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Finally watched Papa Hemingway in Cuba on Amazon Prime. Being a Hemingway aficionado, I actually thought it was pretty good. It was PRICELESS for the fact that it was filmed at the actual locations. I was at the Finca a few months back, and the movie captures the locations nicely. I thought the film also captured the main thing about the 60ish Hemingway; his complexity and his being both a true friend, a hero, and a son of a barnacle. The movie suffers from the fact that the acting is truly terrible in one or two scenes. But over all, not so bad. Oh, and while it is MOSTLY historically accurate, there are a few artistic liberties taken. I’ll call “bullshit” on the birthday party fakery and also on smuggling arms for the revolutionaries. But, over all, not such a bad portrayal of the artist in decline. Fairly sympathetically done.

 

[MikeKardec]

Finally watched Papa Hemingway in Cuba on Amazon Prime. Being a Hemingway aficionado, I actually thought it was pretty good. It was PRICELESS for the fact that it was filmed at the actual locations. I was at the Finca a few months back, and the movie captures the locations nicely. I thought the film also captured the main thing about the 60ish Hemingway; his complexity and his being both a true friend, a hero, and a son of a barnacle. The movie suffers from the fact that the acting is truly terrible in one or two scenes. But over all, not so bad. Oh, and while it is MOSTLY historically accurate, there are a few artistic liberties taken. I’ll call “bullshit” on the birthday party fakery and also on smuggling arms for the revolutionaries. But, over all, not such a bad portrayal of the artist in decline. Fairly sympathetically done.

I'd blame the "bad acting" on a seriously inept script. You just can't play the crud they are handing out in this one. The overall concept didn't suck, same with some of the technical and crafts aspects, but how anyone thought the scene construction and dialog was ready for anything other than 1970s second run houses is beyond me. With any moderately well respected actor who has more than a couple of credits where they are excellent (and there are quite a few in this pic) a bad performance is generally: 1) poorly constructed and motivated dialog or 2) an actor given more "control" than necessary ... ie. a runaway ego combined with producers begging him or her to take the part so they can get a green light. From previous credits I'm going to guess runaway egos are probably not the case in this case. At least I'd hope not.