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Summary: Romance at its height
Review: This is the very first movie i find very special and is to be put apart from the other romances. It really marked me when i saw that the events could be real at any moment from a woman's real life. And that what makes the beauty of this film : TRUTH.
This romance takes place in Iowa, and it shows us how people can easily become the talk of the town when someone's wife sleeps with somebody or the other way round...Anyway, Francesca (Meryl Streep) seems to have avoided the village gossiping, but she'll never forget nor regret the passion-filled affair she's had with Robert (Clint Eastwood) during her husband and children's absence for 4 days. The romance at its height between a married woman of a certain age, and a man who's near his sixty-fives. The very fruit for a forbidden desire. The movie does keep a harmonious atmosphere and a particular secret you will unveil.
A very good romance, performed by one of the finest actresses in America. Must Buy DVD.
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Summary: Yes, I'm a guy. Yes, I'm straight. Yes I loved it.
Review: The Bridges of Madison county is a beautiful wonderful romance, and a testimony to Clint Eastwoods range as a director. For information on aestetic quality and story etc. you can look at other reviews. I'm simply letting anyone who is interested know that I loved this movie, and I put it right up along side my other favorites: Se7en, Happiness, Citizen Kane, The Crow, Resevoir Dogs, etc. etc. I'm not a romance buff, but this is a really heart warming movie for those willing to be patient, and accept the movies on its own terms. The movie does take its time, but anyone who has been in love should know that its not always like Chasing Amy where in an instant you recognize your love for the person and embrace in the middle of rain storm. Sometimes it just happens slowly... awkwardly even... and sometimes even though you want it to work in the worst possible way - it just cant.
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Summary: It's not a love Story ....
Review: Why any one thinks that love story happens only in movies.Not every story is a love story. ...Meeting and separations is not a love story. I saw this movie pretty late but this happened in my life. But how come I can tell this to world. How come I tell the world grass is green and sky is blue.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: I can not say enough about this movie. I enjoyed it so very much. It now tops my list of the best movies ever made.
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Summary: Touching
Review: Quite possibly the best movie ever made.
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Summary: Indirectly deals with divorce
Review: in a nutshell, this is a movie about a bored, Italian woman who came to America expecting something bigger and better but instead she's stuck on a farming village without a career and building her life around her husband and kids..although her husband is not a bad person, she secretly wants more than a life on a farm amongst boring people who spends their time gossiping about nothing...she meets a man who seems to be the answer to her dull life..someone who is sensitive,travel the world, and lives the free lifestyle that she desires..of course divorce was more unacceptable back in 1965 then especially in the farming town of Madison County...Francesca is torn between keeping her family together and following her own dreams... some people hate this movie because they simply look at it as two old people who are selfish and lack morals...i look at it differently...it's really about how women back then, sacrificed their happiness for their family because divorce was so out of the question
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Summary: One of the Best Romantic Dramas Out-There.
Review: A Lonely Woman (Two Time Oscar-Winner:Meryl Streep) is left alone for Four Days in the Lowa Country, while her Husband & Two Children are Gone for a Contest Trip. Then She unexpectedly meets a Man from the National Geographic Photographer:Robert Kincaid (Two-Time Oscar-Winner:Clint Eastwood). But these Two Souls, they unexpectedly fall in love but These Couple are meant for Eachother, even When, thier love is forbidden. Directed by Clint Eastwood (Blood Work, Play Misty for Me, Unforgiven) made a Wonderful Romantic Adult Film. Streep & Eastwood make Magic in this film. Based on a Popular Novel by Robert James Waller, from a Screenplay by Richard La Gravenese (The Horse Whisperer, Living Out Loud, The Ref) with Excellent Cinematography by Jack N. Green (Twister) makes this Beautiful film Worth Seeing. Streep recieve an Oscar Nomination for her Performance. Produced by actor:Eastwood & Kathleen Kennedy (A.I.-Artifical Intelligence). Grade:A+.
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Summary: A Sad Tale of Lost Values
Review: I am usually a liberal minded person. But I really had a difficult time rooting for this couple. The scenery and the location are fantastic. The performances by Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep are among the best of their careers. But on personal moral grounds I have to give this movie a bad review. Francesca is a bored an unfulfilled housewife. Her husband, who is away, is not a bad character, he doesn't abuse or neglect her, she is just not content with her life and ends up having an affair. She breaks sacred vows for moments of selfish pleasure and we are supposed to be on her side? How about telling the story from the perspective of her husband who may someday finds out about the affair. His bond with his wife has been broken, his trust in her has been shattered. How do we feel about Francesca now? Do we now still feel sorry for this poor unfulfilled heroine? And Clint Eastwood's character doesn't get off easy either. I think it is good that he discovers he is vulnerable and that he does need people and intimacy in his life, but where are his values and integrity? This may look like love to him but it is lust. Love is honoring commitments, not only the ones an individual makes, but also honoring the commitments and boundaries of others. Affairs break hearts and ruin families. I don't think that this is something we as a culture and society need to condone and romanticizes. Sure, stories such as these are dramatic, they sell, and they try to make some type of statement. But I think it does come down to values. Values, that is a word that has been bantered about so much I think it may have lost its meaning. To value something is to treasure, honor, and to reserve whatever it is we value as something special, and sacred. The irony in "Bridges of Madison County" is that it communicates to us the message that commitment, love, and sex, no longer hold that place of value. If there is a moral victory in the fact that she stayed with her family, the victory is hollow. Because the film, in its romanticized view of the affair, tries to leave the audience with the impression that her choice to stay with her family was somehow a loss for her...and that is very sad.
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Summary: After 45 minutes of Iowa, we left
Review: I was born in Iowa and love the landscape of that state, Nebraska, etc., but this movie managed to bore me to tears after a mere 45 minutes. I have only ever walked out of two movies and this was one of them. It was painful watching two of my favorite actors wasting their time in what was a piece of drivel to begin with, but which I had hoped would be redeemed by their presence. No such luck, it was still unbelievable drivel. I couldn't get the recommendation box let me say "anything but this!"
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Summary: VERY DULL
Review: I lived in Iowa for a few years and I took my wife (who hated the movie too) to Madison county to see the bridges. We saw these 2 older women walking on one of the bridges and we heard them say, "And this is where Francesca sees him..."
I almost yelled, "Get a life". I don't get the attraction at all.
I really like Meryl Streep as an actress, but this movie is just bad and very boring.
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