No one mentions the music......the musical score grabs your emotions, and you loose yourself in a story of lonliness and passion.
Without Eastwoods's masterful editing of this film and it's musical score, it would have been a yawn.....it is not.
Top five most romantic and moving movies I've ever seem....hated the book, but if your eyes don't leak with this, you're not human.
When Francesca begs Robert to help her...and the scene with her standing in the drive alone, as she watches him drive away....Meryl Streep is a true artist...you feel every beat of her longing, crushed heart.