This is the only film ever that made me cut a telephone call short for I would not want to stop the film. It is a romantic movie that restricts the technical film-making to the minimum preserving the intimacy of the scenes. The two lead actors, Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood both have the ability to leave it to their gestures and faces to create the intensity of the moment, make the viewer feel the inner action. Consequently the outstanding scene, shot in a car waiting at a red light, needs no talking, pure moving pictures. Almost with every scene the film makes you believe that what you see will happen now, cannot be missed and will be gone forever with the next frame. The drama is presented as one big flashback from the children's perspective. One may argue that this destroys the viewer's perspective and excitement now and then. However it does make the point that this is a once-in-a-lifetime story, there is an end to it.
Review of The Bridges of Madison County
