The film is a vigorous, witty, satiric attempt to give dramatic shape to two aggressively anti-dramatic prose works. Bridge" is so deceptively clean and sunny, so anti-climactic from beginning to end, so subliminally subversive that it will probably send a lot of people out of the theater in a fury expressed by yawns.īear with it, though. Bridge," in which Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward give the most adventurous, most stringent performances of their careers, is many odd things, but it certainly isn't safe or soothing or culturally self-congratulatory in the manner that Masterpiece Theaterism seems to imply. Jhabvala will again be accused of rampant Masterpiece Theaterism, but never will that charge have been more loosely and wrongheadedly entered. Forster's "Room With a View": Ismail Merchant, the producer James Ivory, the director, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the writer. The film's gallant perpetrators are the same team that found the cinematic centers of Henry James's "Bostonians" and E. Bridge." It opens today at the Cinema 1 in Manhattan.
Bridge" (1969), which have now been turned into a singularly bold, weird and offbeat movie titled "Mr. Connell's two exceptionally fine novels about the same upper-middle-class American marriage, "Mrs. REALISTIC is an accurate though hardly adequate way of describing Evan S.
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