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Summary: Heartbreakingly Beautiful
Review: I like every other woman in the world read the book, and went through two boxes of Kleenex while doing so. I saw this movie and hoped against hope that the ending would change...and the ending is the same except it is different in the movie (I don't want to give anything away). I had not pictured Clint Eastwood as Robert but all through reading the book I did see Francesca as Meryl Streep. I was delighted at her casting. One thing that is overlooked in this movie is the heartbreakingly sentimental music written by Clint Eastwood for the film. I don't condone the adultery in the film, but every woman and man, somewhere in their life, has had a great love, whether it lasted 4 days or 50 years, and that is the reason that this story appeals to so many. Love is love, and what happens here is a love that burned brightly for the time that it did, and existed forever in the heart of two people. Buy the video, and prepare for your emotions to be moved!
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Summary: Director Eastwood deserved another oscar nomination
Review: Actor/Director Clint Eastwood did a superlative job with this right-person-wrong-time love story. The big moment when Meryl Streep must decide whether to stay with her husband or go with a new, vibrant love is heart rending and underplayed. No melodrama here. Again and again Eastwood has shown that he has learned valuable lessons in filmmaking from the great directors he worked with in the sixties and early seventies. Why wasn't he nominated for this film? He more than deserved it.
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Summary: somewhere beyond the Yeat's golden apple
Review: I know the film has the tremendous shocks to the modern marriage even to the Chinese. I read both the novel and film at the sme time when I appointed to give a comments in a Hovering Clouds( a Reading Club in Taiwan).During the reading period, I has extremely experienced the intense and spiritual struggle ever had that forced me to think of again and again the transcendental way to beyond the predicament that almost everyone was " helpless " involved. Cline Westwood is a great artist and he also indicate the real resolution just like Existentialistic approach that everyone must find himself a difficult way to keep the balance between the self and its beyond....At the end of the film where the beginning of the real love
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Summary: Eastwood and Streep light a fuse together
Review: This is a GREAT film--it touched me on a deeper level than I had expected. The performances by Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep really pull the film together--especially Streep. The tenderness, vulnerability, and suppressed layers of emotions she brought to the role is remarkable. (A lot of folks these days are shrugging her off and griping because she consistently receives Oscar nominations for her work--maybe if they would try watching her films for a change, she wouldn't be taken for granted). The only downside to the film is some extremely slow moving scenes (mostly the ones that take place in the present time), but when it's all said and done, and the credits begin to scroll, the film leaves an impact that will affect even the most jaded of viewers.
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Summary: Wonderful acting and directing, disgraceful story
Review: It is rare that I get offended by a movie. This one did it. Meryl Streep is married to a wonderful husband who she completely fails to appreciate. He's nothing. Take a hike, jerk. The man she falls for, to the point of insisting on being buried with when the time comes, is some guy who drifted into her life for a week while her husband had taken the kids on a camping trip. Sure he's a nice guy. But what kind of advantage is that. Who will a woman be more excited about - her husband of 20 years or some handsome new guy who falls for her while hubby is away? This ditz seems to think that she and her lover are doing the family a favor by not splitting up the family. Who the hell is she? I hope her husband had a few dozen girls on the side. It would be hard to find a more unappreciative or a stupider wife than the one starring in this movie. He's a photographer. Whoop de doo.
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Summary: Not a moment wasted.
Review: Its so rare these days for a Hollywood movie that starts with a major league best seller, to turn into anything but homogenous drivel, particularly by the time you've loaded big-time on-screen, and off the screen talent, and forced the story into a script that provides both strong male and female leads-something required these days to get all the boxes checked on the studio marketing head's questionnaire. My advantage in screening Bridges, was that I hadn't read the book, and had no expectations as a result, I didn't leave the theater saying, 'they left so and so out, or that was different than the book...' You know the drill. What I got was a good, sensitive story, artfully crafted and presented by two premiere film stars, showing their wares singularly and jointly.. It is likely that they are both terribly miscast...maybe Streep 10 years ago, and Eastwood 20 would have been a stronger match, yet no one in today's acting circles comes to mind as a preferable substitute. I found their romance by no means unbelievable. Lets give screenwriter Richard LaGravanese some credit-although he bit it a bit with his directorial debut 'Living Out Loud', he's right on target here. Eastwood longtime collaborator Jack Green presents us with beautiful, stirring images-the tent pole to the entire experience. Will watch it over and over again without tiring.
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Summary: please stop the torture
Review: Oh my God! What the heck was going on in the head of whom ever made this movie come to life? This is the worst flick i have seen in my entire life. I can't find the words to express the pure hell i went through when i saw this with my girlfriend. If i wasn't nice guy i would of snaped that dvd in half and throw it in the fire. To all people; save yourselves(Expecially the guys).
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST LOVE STORIES I HAVE EVER SEEN
Review: This is diffenately one of the best love stories I have ever seen. Just to put yourself in this womans place and go through this movie with her. It Will certianly put you in touch with the woman in all of us. I would recommend this movie to anybody who loves romance.
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Summary: all mothers, watch this movie!
Review: Yes, it is a love story. A wonderfully moving and touching and heart wrenching love story. But also, and very importantly, it is the story of how women, mothers, give themselves up for their families. Many women feel the way francesca felt. They bury their dreams and no one ever knows who they really were. As a mother myself, although I am married to my "robert kincaid", (my true love) I could relate to that feeling of having stopped so your children can move on. We must not do this to ourselves or to our families. This movie made me realize that I, as a person, deserve to have my own and separate existence so my children do not find journals after my death and only then discover who their mother really was. EXCELLENT MOVIE! and now I must read the book.
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Summary: wonderful tear-jerker
Review: Although most stayed away from the theaters(myself included) when the movie opened, presumably turned off by the idea of Clint Eastwood as a romantic lead,this movie truly deserves a second chance on video. Adapted from Robert James Whaller novel, the film is a moving look at true love that comes too late. The characters are wonderfully acted by Oscar winners Streep and Eastwood. As usual Streep shines in her portrayal of Franchesca. Making us feel her dispair in a situation she never thought she would be in. But it is Eastwood who believably portrays Robert's anguish after finding love and knowing that it just can't be. Eastwood also directed.
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