My Year with Meryl Streep: The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
A look at the classic Clint Eastwood romance that earned Meryl her tenth Oscar nomination!
I recently spent a whole year watching a Meryl Streep film every week, and I thought I’d share with you some of the reviews I wrote for her many classic films!
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
A quiet romantic film released in the midst of summer, starring, of all people, Clint Eastwood? The Bridges of Madison County was, like the runaway novel bestsellers like The Da Vinci Code and The Help, always going to be made into a movie — at one point Sydney Pollack circled the project with Robert Redford as his lead, and even Steven Spielberg briefly considered taking it on — but what kind of a movie was it going to be? Would it be too melodramatic? Would the two leads have any chemistry?
When Eastwood — who in 1995 was most known for playing Dirty Harry, an action hero, and for directing Unforgiven, a dark western — was announced to be the co-actor and director of The Bridges of Madison County, there were likely more than a few eyebrows raised. Approaching age sixty-five, he was an unlikely romantic lead as the handsome photographer Robert Kincaid, but what’s even more surprising is that the…
