1995 · romance · drama
The Bridges of Madison County
Directed by Clint Eastwood2h 15m1995
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Our read: The Bridges of Madison County (1995) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded romance · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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