Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Paul Gomes Streep delivers a fantastic and convincing performance full of subtlety...but the film is paced extremely slow and the flow is constantly broken by the jarring transitions to her present day children reading her diary. The acting in those sequences is strikingly bad and destroys any sense of immersion in the story. A cut of this film without those sequences would be at least one star higher...maybe more since I cannot truly tell if I would have been more drawn into the story without them.

SnoopyStyle The family of Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep) is dealing with her final wish after her death. She wants to be cremated and her ashes scattered from Roseman Bridge. They discover pictures taken in 1965 and her emotional affair with famed National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid (Clint Eastwood) whose ashes were scattered from the bridge. Her kids read her accounts of those four days. Her family went to the Illinois state fair. Robert was on assignment to film the bridge and stopped to ask directions from Italian war bride Francesca.It's a simple bittersweet story. Director Clint Eastwood doesn't add anything overtly melodramatic. Meryl Streep is pitch-perfect. She's an expert on calibrating her accents but it's her every simple gesture that is so precise. She could teach an acting class from this movie. The story is basically laid out in the first ten minutes before either Streep or Eastwood is even on the screen. That is its most obvious drawback. It's not a movie of twists and mysteries. It is however a movie of emotional depth and her children are a big part of it.

inioi It is curious, as some reviewers write what Francesca should have done with his life before she would fall in love with Robert. There is usually a clear trend in some people, trying to impose their morality, and believe what is good or bad for others. So Francesca should do "this" or "that" ... and anything other than that, it's wrong.I'm not interested in making an objection just to go into a matter. For me, the story is quite simple. Probably Francesca was not tired of her husband, or she was not in search of adventure. Just she met a man she liked more, and decided to go with what she felt. Anyway, at the end of four days of romance everything back the way it was, which is quite credible.In the end, the story is beautifully told, and it has moments of uncertainty, sexual tension, drama, love ... and it is stylishly directed.8/10

shubphotons Okay, now this movie forces me to rethink upon an issue that has been troubling me for a long time now. If you married young and have a life and kids and everything, the popular culture portrays it as a failure to live your life completely. Let's get to the movie before I elaborate. Enter Francesca Johnson an Italian war bride who is married to a hardworking, honest, down to soil farmer who loves her but as usual he has many other things to care about rather than serenading his wife all the time. The husband takes the two kids off to Illinois Country fair and Francesa declines the invitation to come along. Enter Robert Kincaid, a dashing devil may care, rangy, cowboy photographer. He's intense he loves his job and roams the world like a free wind. No tangles no relations to hold him down. And obviously Francesca stumbles hopelessly in love with him. Now my point is lady, that guy is like the text book definition of a cool guy he's charming and he has these philosophies and ideas and all this is very appealing to Francesca. But we must keep in mind a passionate 4 day affair is easy a life time of camaraderie and support is another. I hate this idea that it's bad to just be with one person and boring means your life has amounted to nothing. I believe this ideology has increased unhappiness and occurrences of unfaithfulness. Cool kids are fine but they don't stick around. We need to glorify the silent real men who stick through till the bitter end. That's all I have to say. Movie is okay but the idea ruins it for me, although it does have a nice description of the bucolic life. It's a cinematic equivalent of American pastoral.