{"id":13398,"date":"2024-09-03T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13398"},"modified":"2024-09-08T13:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T20:27:49","slug":"across-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/03\/across-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Across The Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/09\/across-the-river-rex-reed-review-a-lifeless-adaptation-of-hemingways-novel\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_term=09\/03\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hemingway\u2019s Worst Novel Gets Worse: \u2018Across the River\u2019 Is a Dull, Pointless Misfire<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Liev Schreiber and Venice can&#8217;t save this lifeless adaptation of Hemingway&#8217;s least beloved work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/rex-reed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rex Reed<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/ACROSS-THE-RIVER-_-MATILDA-_-LIEV-e1725371645141.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=970\" alt=\"A man and a woman looking at each over on a bridge overlooking a canal\" class=\"wp-image-1449513\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Matilda de Angelis and Liev Schreiber star in \u2018Across the River and Into the Trees,\u2019 a lifeless stump destined for box-office doom.\u00a0Courtesy Tribune Pictures<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Does anyone know how to make a movie these days that makes sense, with enough plot, narrative coherence and character development to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/05\/jeanne-du-barry-movie-review-maiwenn-johnny-depp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">keep a viewer from falling asleep<\/a>? Hope springs eternal, but the answer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/08\/rex-reed-the-union-movie-review-endless-predictable-cliches-1-star\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from almost everything I\u2019ve seen lately<\/a>, is no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newest time-waster is\u00a0<em>Across the River and Into the Trees,\u00a0<\/em>a dismal disappointment based on the last full-length novel written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/ernest-hemingway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ernest Hemingway<\/a>\u00a0and published to abysmal reviews in 1950 (later came\u00a0<em>The Old Man and the Sea,\u00a0<\/em>but that was a short novella, not a novel). Now, more than 70 years later and for reasons unexplained, along comes a dull, pointless movie version of\u00a0<em>Across the River,<\/em>\u00a0proving Hemingway\u2019s worst book has not improved with age. Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/paula-ortiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paula Ortiz<\/a>, obviously obsessed with the source material but understandably realizing how resistant it has always been to film, has changed practically everything about the book, including the plot, the characters and even the postwar years in which it takes place. Nothing, I regret to say, helps. It\u2019s lifeless as a stump, and destined for box-office doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/09\/across-the-river-rex-reed-review-a-lifeless-adaptation-of-hemingways-novel\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_term=09\/03\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Observer Hemingway\u2019s Worst Novel Gets Worse: \u2018Across the River\u2019 Is a Dull, Pointless Misfire Liev Schreiber and Venice can&#8217;t save this lifeless adaptation of Hemingway&#8217;s least beloved work. By\u00a0Rex Reed Does anyone know how to make a movie these days that makes sense, with enough plot, narrative coherence and character development to\u00a0keep a viewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}