In 1965, the husband and children of housewife Francesca Johnson (Meryl Streep) leave their home in Madison County to go to the Illinois State Fair. While they’re away, a National Geographic photographer called Robert Kincaid (played by Clint Eastwood) arrives. He’s been commissioned to photograph the eponymous bridges in Madison, and changes everything.
The photographer: Eastwood wields a Nikon F with an S36 drive in the movie – intriguingly, though, the latter doesn’t stop him advancing the film manually on a few occasions. There’s a bit of early fumbling with a tripod that suggests he isn’t a man who’s made a career out of taking photos, but otherwise Eastwood’s technique is sound.
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Most famous for: This is one of the few movie adaptations to improve on the book it’s based on – in this case, Robert James Waller’s novel.
Worth watching? Yes! It’s one for the true romantics.
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