Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999)
BBC

Description

Michael Palin turns his wandering eye to the life and locales of Ernest Hemingway. The series moves in and out of past and present to the places that meant so much to Hemingway: Chicago, his birthplace; Italy, scene of his injuries in World War I; Paris; Pamplona and the running of the bulls; his beloved Havana; Key West, where his presence is still felt today; Uganda, where he went on safari; and Ketchum, Idaho, where he died.

Tags

Chicago, Uganda, Italy, Paris, Pamplona, Havana

Collected reviews and ratings

8.0 Amazon user reviews

Quite different from the other Palin series I've seen (80 Days, Full Circle, Himalaya). Less of the point-to-point urgency in this one, and as a result it's more relaxed; and he goofs around more.
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6.0 DVD Talk | Bill Gribon

Palin is clearly trying to get across his passion for the subject, and as a result, a lot of his innate subjectivity is missing. In addition, Hemingway loved to do very macho, very politically incorrect things, so when Palin pales in recreating such infamous feats, his courteous cowardice seems staged.
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