My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990)

Real-life husband and wife, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, star in a Merchant Ivory film about a conservative husband and wife living during the 1930s and 40s who are faced with a changing American.  Mr. Bridge is a lawyer content being an emotionless, career focused gentlemen and Mrs. Bridge is a lonely, old-fashion woman struggling to find her purpose now that her children are leaving the nest.  Written by master literature adapter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novels by Evan S. Cornell and directed by James Ivory, here is another testament to one of the greatest cinematic partnership there ever was.  I really don't know how they created films like this one, films so well-developed and thematic it's easy to take for granted.  Grade: A- 
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