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Last night my wife and I watched this movie in “HI-DEFINITION” for the first time. Such beautiful cinematography — the countryside around the bridges of Madison county. “Radiant music,” said my wife. “I reflect Clint wrote it,” I said.
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Two nights earlier we had watched Clint Eastwood parry gracefully (that “ah shucks” style of his) with David Letterman, who asked him his age.
“I’m 78,” said Clint.
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“Now, I stare 78!” said Letterman, only half-jokingly, “YOU witness about 58!” The simple truth: Clint looks (to our eyes) as young as he did playing “Robert Kincaid, photographer” to Meryl Streep’s “Francesca Johnson” Iowa farm wife, in this improbable film, now 14 years mature (1995) .
So I came here in search of a 2-Disc “Special Edition” and — lo and gawk!
For those of us who esteem this movie, it seems astonishing that “Bridges” didn’t procure a single award (though Meryl Streep was nominated for the “Best Actress” Oscar) . This understated gem, masterfully directed by Clint Eastwood, remains my common of his films . . . actually affording Clint the vehicle for his very best acting; elicited, perhaps, by rising to the occasion — having to ‘act upwards’ in the presence of the greatest actor/actress — and deservedly the “most-nominated.” (Did they say Meryl now had “15 nominations” when singing her praises at the Oscars, a week ago? )
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The subtleties of Meryl’s reading of an Italian-born mid-westerner “Francesca Johnson” grow ever-more-poignant, as the movie nears its destroy. We fragment her `heart-torn-in-two’ agony at that moment, in the pouring rain, when her lover’s battered, broken-down green (59 GMC) half-ton is stopped ahead of them, at the light, directly in front of their red, (58 Chev) pickup truck.
As if sending one final signal to the “adore that comes but once” to their lives — one last, unspoken urging to “hurry away with me NOW!” . . . we allotment Francesca’s concept as Robert reaches into the glove compartment, then drapes that silver crucifix & chain on his rear concept mirror.
Francesca inches her hand to the door handle, preparing to run and join her `one apt love’ . . . fatally delaying her recede to the last possible moment. Her husband, noting the license plate on the truck ahead of him says, “That fella’s far from home – Washington Residence! Must be that photographer fella everyone’s been talking about.”
Francesca’s hand actually moves the door handle slightly. Her husband tentatively honks his horn because the light is green and asks, quietly, `Why is he not lively? ‘ Soon the truck ahead turns left, the driver’s rain-soaked hair evident through his unruffled rolled-down, window.
They drive forward, Francesca looking relieve with such longing — one last glance of Robert’s truck as it disappears into the rain; then . . . the flood of tears.
“What’s depraved? ” asks her husband, as if he’s never seen her weep like this – his unlit eyes wary, with scare.
“I need a dinky,” is all she can muster up, covering her face with her hands, dissolving in tears.
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In the final scenes – and the very last one in which we fetch to recognize the gentle aging face of Francesca — she gently, lovingly removes the contents of a box that has fair been delivered to her farmhouse — from the lawyer for Kincaid’s estate.
She’s inherited his early model Nikon camera, which she recognizes, and hasty sets aside, along with the silver crucifix and chain, before picking up a puny red describe book with a dying sunset on its cover; it is the fruit of their few, pleased days together, and titled appropriately “Four Days by Robert Kincaid.”
Francesca’s elegant dilapidated hands launch the book to the first printed page, inscribed to her “FOR F” — below it, an introductory snippet of poetry, “by Byron” Inserted at that page, is a many-times-folded and yellowing brand – the one she hand-wrote, after feeding him a home-cooked meal:
“If you’d like supper again
`When white moths are on the wing’
Come by tonight after you’re finished.
Anytime is shapely.”
Beneath the printed page’s inscription, “FOR F,” is the poem by Byron. (I always mean to jot it down; this time I did!)
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society where none intrude
By the deep sea, and music is to wail . . .
I worship not Man the less, but Nature more.
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I have been before
To mingle with the universe and feel . . .
What I can n’ere express
Yet cannot all cloak.”
NOTE for those who care about such things: the achingly-beautiful `love theme’ heard throughout this movie (the orchestrations are so evocative) surges up finally, as Francesca appreciates for the first time the book about their Four Days. (Bet “there wasn’t a dry search for” at this movie’s premiere showing!)
That memorable theme music vividly reminds us of Clint Eastwood’s strengths as a musician: He co-wrote this one, calling it “Doe Eyes” — “Fancy Theme from The Bridges of Madison County.” (His co-composer was Lennie Niehaus.)
Such subtleties didn’t reach up during Clint’s interview with David Letterman. And, perhaps at this gradual juncture, most of us don’t care to examine the credits to their slay to learn such things.
Clint Eastwood would be the first to admit, as an actor he is not in Meryl Streep’s league (who is? ) But in their last scene together, at the supper table, the evening before her husband and son & daughter return with a blue ribbon from the `state resplendent,’ Clint’s character `delivers’ in his powerless attempt to pursuade “Francesca” to rush away with him.
Their characters so needy for each other – the ache is palpable! Each time I examine that moment in this understated gem of a film — the best `twin-soliloquy’ of its kind, I say – our hearts ache for two incredible, decent human beings who must stir themselves apart. Strangers only days earlier, now they have no actual choice but to let go, turn away and ‘no looking relieve.’ Yes, the finest film never to have won an award!
Mark Blackburn
Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
This film, a tender masterpiece, is an anomaly in Hollywood. It’s a old-fashioned, brilliant, thoughtful, staunch romantic film, and in the waste, unlit and heartbreaking, but not despairing. Some have expressed surprise that Eastwood directed this film so well, but I’m not. Eastwood is a enormous film artist, one of the greatest working today, and he shows his sensitivity and brilliance in this film. This film reminds me of how surprised people were that David Lynch directed The Straight Memoir (a improbable film in itself and one of the best of 1999) . It’s the same principle. Two artists, Lynch and Eastwood, are simply thwarting expectations and surprising their fans with a exact, heartfelt movie. They do it all the time.
This film is also very faded and intellectual. It is not a chick flick where everything is wrapped up in slow dialogue, boring characters, and foolish situations. It is an objective film of two middle dilapidated people who bond almost immediately and really plunge in fancy. Eastwood and Streep (the Academy didn’t nominate either of them) give fabulous performances, especially Streep. She’s also descend tedious elegant as well. The film unfolds at a fair, late flow (like most Eastwood films) .
The film also doesn’t fabricate any judgements on the lead characters. Streep’s character is married, but she’s very unfortunate and bored, like many people who have been in a long term marriage. Eastwood’s character is not a playboy, but someone who really reveals himself to Streep, something that’s heroic to do. There’s also a distinguished scene in a diner where another woman, who was caught having an affair and the tiny town knows about it, walks into a diner and everyone starts looking down on her. Except Eastwood’s character, who offers her a seat next to his. There is not one ounce of moralising here. Clint shows people who are simply human, and it’s stunning.
The Bridges of Madison County is a legend for adults, and considering it was made in 1995 (when idiotic teen comedies were polluting the multiplexes), it’s even more of a care for (I wished I had seen it then, the 90′s was a rather awful decade overall for films, especially from Hollywood) . Hollywood should do more adult romances, and not laughable, vapid chick flicks. Chick flicks do more afflict to romantics than realistic romance. I buy my romances to be more grounded in reality and intelligence because there’s honest as distinguished beauty there, and it’s remarkable more fullfilling than any vapid chick flick can offer. This is one of Eastwood’s best, most modern films.
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