7/10
Insightful and revealing
4 February 2014
This appears to be an unfinished documentary from Margaux and her ex-husband, Bernard Foucher retracing grandpa Ernest's life of fame in Europe. The key segment where the couple would meet friends and relatives of Hemingway at a Venice party seems to have not been completed because the couple's canal boat got lost so they had to arrive later at night. So the focus of the film becomes more a posthumous tribute to Margaux that explores the influences her father and grandfather had on her life. She visits Paris to learn of Hemingway's life during the war and the impact art had on his writing, then moves onto Pampalona to see the running of the bulls and a bullfight. Margaux even tries her hand at it during a practice session and almost gets gored. Hemingway wrote, "Never take your wife to Pampalona" so it seems the curse of his words split up his granddaughter's marriage, too.
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