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COLD AS ICE

Today's Paul Newman Fest film was the Merchant/Ivory/Jhabvala production

Mr.and Mrs. Bridge (1990)

Any film about repression ends up being, well, repressed.

The usual slick MIJ production is pretty cold but the performances of Newman and Joanne Woodward warm the piece up and it is good to see them work together.

Here, Newman is not the anti-hero. He is a master of quiet domestic violence. Woodward is excellent as the browbeaten wife. The two work together beautifully.

And that is the whole thing.

I have seen this twice. Enough to get that Newman could still do the job in something entirely different than he had worked in before.

Very nice.

I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.

Labels: film, films