(1995 Romance) - I must have seem this movie 10 times since it’s release and I swear, it gets me every time. Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood do a superb job, the emotions pulsate so realistically, and let’s face it, the character that Eastwood plays, National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid, is the type of man every woman yearns to have in her life…strong, sensitive, well-traveled with a lust for life, and sophisticated with that indescribably understated sensuality that only comes with age and wisdom. I especially love the part when Streep’s character, the housewife Francesca asks him at dinner what is the most interesting place that he has traveled to and he hesitates before responding by telling her it is Africa because of it’s untammed nature and careless morality, and that to him there is no other place like it. She falls in love with him at that point, the turning point of the entire story.
I recommend the movie as well as the book to anyone who enjoys good romances. In the movie version, no other actors would’ve done justice to these roles like Streep and Eastwood.
