Movies
January, 1991
As a strait-laced Kansas City couple, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (Miramax) provide a sympathetic and fascinating study of American Gothic mores some decades ago. Directed impeccably by James Ivory from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation of tandem novels by Evan S. Connell, the film shows the same tasteful, fastidious touch the Ivory–Jhabvala team brought to A Room with a View. Set in the Thirties and Forties, it's a movie that brings forth such adjectives as lovely, sw...
