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In Africa, close to the Kilimanjaro mountain, the writer Henry Street (Gregory Peck) is seriously wounded on the leg. He is waiting in a camping with his woman Helen (Susan Hayward) and the African safari expedition for a means of transportation to the hospital. While feverish, he remembers his life and the relationship with his three loves. In Paris, he met Cynthia Green (Ava Gardner), his great love. He traveled with her to Africa and to Spain, where she left him due to a misunderstanding. In Riviera, the frigid Countess Liz (Hildegarde Neff). Then, back in Madrid, he loses definitely Cynthia. And finally in Paris, in a bridge close to Notre Dame, he meets Helen, a woman who resembles Cynthia. This romance is very powerful and beautiful. The solution of the riddle is also great. The story is not aged, the situations are not corny and there are excellent dialogs. Ava Gardner is extremely beautiful and her performance is wonderful. Two particular scenes called my attention. The first one, marvelous, when Henry and Cynthia light their cigarettes in the night of Paris, illuminating their faces in the beginning of their relationship. The other one, was the beautiful flag of my country in an arena. In Brazil, we have never had bullfights, which are common in Spain and Mexico. Therefore, I did not understand why the Brazilian flag was in the pole of the arena of bullfight. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): `As Neves do Kilimanjaro' (`The Snows of Kilimanjaro')
score 8/10
claudio_carvalho 22 March 2004
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