Liev Schreiber Calls Across the River and Into the Trees a Cautionary War Tale and Love Story
15One of the best movies of the summer was quietly released at the end of August, nearly two years after Europeans got to experience it. Across the River and Into the Trees is a poignant adaptation of one of Ernest Hemingway's most oft-forgotten novels. The film, smartly directed by Paula Ortiz, sees Liev Schreiber star as Colonel Richard Cantewell, a fifty-one-year-old career soldier whose terminal heart failure will catch up with him in three days. Like the novel, the film covers the Colonel's final days as he returns to the city he loves, Venice, for one final duck hunt. There, he meets a bright-eyed young woman, Renata (Matilda De Angelis) who changes his outlook on life, far too late.
Just before the film arrived in theaters in North America, I had the opportunity to speak with the ever-talented Liev Schreiber about the film. He spoke about crafting the romance between the Colonel and Renata, how the ghost of Hemingway was meant to haunt the film due to its semi-biographical quality, which other Hemingway novels he was familiar with, and how he captured the physicality of the role. He also briefly spoke about a previously announced project (The Guns of Christmas Past) which hasn't moved into production yet, and he spoke briefly about the fans who wanted to see him come back as Sabretooth for Deadpool & Wolverine.
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