Out of Africa Themes

At its heart, Out of Africa is a romance: the tender touching story of a nice Danish lady who couldn't catch a break and the hunter who loved her but wasn't able to commit. We guarantee you that Re...

The film is called Out of Africa, so yeah: we're gonna get a whole lot of that part of the world right up on our screen. Sydney Pollack takes care not only to show us the landscape, animals, and th...

Karen Blixen, nom de plume Isak Dinesen, became of the greatest writers of the 20th century when she returned from Africa. While she's still in the "growth and learning" part of her life in Out of...

In Out of Africa, Karen and Denys, and even Bror in some weird way, are trying to get away from a society that pretty much wanted to squash them flat. Karen also wants to escape a lousy marriage, a...

Robert Burns nailed it: "The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men gang aft agley." Philosophers and poets have always reminded us not to get any big ideas about being masters of our fate. Man plans, G...

Karen travels to Africa to escape the expectations of Danish society, but what she really wants is a place where she can plant her flag. It's not Denmark, that's for sure, at least for now. Out of...