Does this song have a mistake? ...i was in your hands we were moved in time to another (space?) Wouldn't "to another LAND" be more appropriate to complete the rhyme?
Igaüks teab, et Inglismaa põle kellegi mereriik, õiged sõnad kõlavad: rolling home rolling home to dear old Ireland. Must believe in old greenwhiteorange
This film is a classic, kind of timeless being as it deals with a subject in all its wonder and sadness and longing. That scene at the traffic lights gets me, even now years later....
i accidentally watched this movie..one night...i would have never have seen it...but a happy accident...i did watch it...and it remained one of my best top ten movies of my life.... we all have our Bridges...we all do...
I’ve seen the film so many times on TV since it came out, and every time the truck scene comes up and her hand is on the door handle I’m shouting at the screen “Get outta the truck!!!”🙏👌😎
Well, I see it differently than most people here. For me, it's not a romantic movie, because in the end, neither of them could ever find out whether it was really love that brought Francesca and Robert together. From the outside, it was a three-night stand - how they would have got on with each other in everyday life remains a big question mark. Because the short affair leaders were very different personalities, which is particularly evident in their CVs: Robert knew very clearly what he wanted from life and had always taken it. He was a freelance photographer and obviously loved it; it would have been difficult to compete with his travel reports from all over the world, and not just for farmers. I perceived him as the epitome of a bachelor, how he was absorbed in his creative profession, how he liked to get around a lot as a result and how he cultivated his apparently widely scattered circle of friends. Above all, however, he was inwardly free and independent, because he never felt lonely. Francesca, on the other hand, struck me as less self-confident, indecisive and therefore somewhat questionable. After all these years of marriage, her husband hadn't even been out of the house for a few hours when she was already telling the next best stranger in the middle of the family kitchen about unfulfilled hopes and desires... Say: what exactly do you expect when you marry a farmer from the Midwest? Life on the farm corresponded almost 1:1 to what is commonly imagined: The couple had two healthy children, the farm was in a beautiful location, there was a nice neighborhood, things seemed to be going well economically - and Richard was caring towards Francesca. So what else had she hoped for, when deciding to follow him there? People are usually more conservative in the country than in the city - in the 1960s anyway.So why was Francesca surprised that Richard wanted to see her on the farm and no longer in her own profession? Why hadn't she discussed this with him beforehand if it was so important to her to work as a teacher? We don't even know if she ever brought it up at all, or if it was just her very own head cinema... Would she even have been interested in a man like Robert as a young woman? His first marriage had failed due to estrangement. He had been away so much (probably on business) that in the end they had nothing more to say to each other. It is quite possible that things would have gone very similarly with Francesca if she had met him and not Richard in Bari. Perhaps it would have been the latter who would have been sitting in her kitchen at some point, listening to her say over a glass of homemade lemonade that she had actually wanted something completely different: A quiet life in the conservative countryside, a family of her own, a caring husband who is more at home... Fresh infatuation and true love are almost indistinguishable, especially in the early stages.I don't doubt that the two actors actually felt as if they had been struck by lightning. But it could only have turned out to be true love over the next year or two, as soon as their hormones calmed down and they could have lived their everyday lives together.But they never had the opportunity to do that; Francesca would have had to cut ties and leave the farm. Financially, she would have been left with nothing, as the farm came from Robert's family and as he would have kept the children, she would have been liable to pay maintenance as soon as she took a job. I don't know whether Italian university degrees were recognized in the USA at the time. She might not have been able to pursue her teaching profession anyway - especially as it would certainly not have been easy to get a decent job in her mid-forties, even with a degree. Even if she had succeeded, her pension entitlements would have remained minimal, as there were already too many years missing. Robert would therefore have had to provide for her, but as a freelance photographer he was probably only insured privately and for himself, if at all. We don't know whether he could afford to take her with him on his photo trips around the world. It's quite possible that Francesca would have spent a lot of time waiting for him in the USA - just like his ex once did. I doubt that she - obviously a family person - would have coped well with this. It would have made her needy sooner or later, which is quite a killer for attractiveness. The reverse would also be true: Robert would always have known what Francesca had been capable of as soon as Richard left the farm. So he could never have been sure what was happening at home while he was traveling the world to earn a living for both of them. Long story short: For me, this is a superbly shot movie, with excellent actors (Clint Eastwood in particular surprised me in a very positive way at the time) and an interesting story. But it's less about love. It's more about the exciting brief encounter between two people, which could probably only come about in this intensity during Francesca's short time away from her family and within the affair bubble, whereby the finiteness further fueled her desire to finally live out her life. My rating: Valuable, but not a love story.
I was 12 turn 13 back in '95 and watched this at the Presidio Theater in San Francisco with about 74 women who cried with me watching that scene at the stop light. The woman next to me held my hand and we all cried together. It was beautiful.
