The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Meryl Streep plays, Francesca, a midwestern farmer's wife of Italian descent & plays it well.

I don't care for the shoddy contemporary story-frame, in this framed narrative, involving Francesca's children. It is likely an artifact of Waller's book that unfortunately remained in the screenplay adaptation.

This film is very similar to the story in David Lean's "Brief Encounter," and also brings to mind the general structure of Sydney Pollack's "Out of Africa."

What's most striking about the film: if one were to assume that illicit love letters & stories of forbidden romances could attain the status of art or artwork, the story of the love affair in TBOMC could be used to argue that certain artworks are indeed ahead of their time; for Francesca's family could not have reconciled her infidelity, no matter how moving her portrait of the romance, until some time has passed.

... Could Art be Infidelity plus Time?