Liev Schreiber Calls 'Across the River and Into the Trees' a "Love Story"

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The Big Picture One 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.

SCHREIBER: This was a love story, but it was also very much about mortality. When we shot this back in 2020, my father was very ill, and I'm no spring chicken either, and this was something that I thought would be compelling material. There's a wonderful novel by an Italian writer named Andrea di Robilant called Autumn in Venice, which tells the story of Hemingway and his relationship with an Italian Aristocrat, Adriana Ivancich.

I love that. That's such a great answer. I really love the physicality of how you play Richard. I think there's a real richness to the subtle movements and those little choices that are made. What was your preparation like for this role and building in the little ways that he might move his hand or the way his gait is because of the injuries he sustained in the war?

You can definitely feel Hemingway's ghost throughout this because it made me think about Hemingway a lot and the fact that there aren't really that many adaptations of his work. So many of them are in the 20th century.

SCHREIBER: I love it, too. The last time we talked was last year; I don't know what's happened with it, or where it is in production. It's a terrific script in the tradition of wacky action films like Die Hard, and I really loved it. So, hopefully whoever has it at this point will resuscitate it, and we can make it before Christmas.

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