Francesca Johnson’s future seems preordained when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her husband and children are away at the Illinois state fair in the summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid turns into the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Roseman Bridge. Francesca later learns that he is in Iowa on assignment from National Geographic magazine. She is first reluctant for he’s a complete stranger and then agrees to show him to the bridge and gradually she talks about her life from being a war-bride from Italy which sets the pace for this bittersweet and all-too-brief romance in her life. Through the pain of separation from her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of her life consume her, she writes her thoughts of the four-day love affair which took up three journals.
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MOVIE
The Bridges of Madison County
By Clint Eastwood, 1995
With Clint Eastwood et Meryl Streep
112 min
