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The creation of this spiritual and visual bond between author and protagonist in the film makes sense.
(Hemingways own father had done something similar, and the idea haunts much of his work.)
It all makes perfect sense, craft-wise, but it also results in something pedestrian.
Ortizs film does have its charms.
Schreiber is of course always interesting to watch.
Its nice to see him take center stage in a movie again.
This is tough, tough material.
It doesnt have much of a story, and a lot of it reads like self-parody.
Is there any way to translatethatto the screen?
A certain long-deceased Nobel laureate might have had something to say about that.
