Connell novels upon which it’s based-”Mrs. The marriage of Walter Bridge, a successful Kansas City attorney, and his wife India, mother of three, is held up as a kind of forlorn, nostalgic paradigm for a way of life that’s all but vanished.ĭirector James Ivory, working from a script by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, doesn’t give the material the faintly satiric spin that was present in the two Evan S. But the film puts such a premium on tastefulness that it never threatens to become exciting. Its stars, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, are on screen virtually all of the time, and they’re always worth watching. Bridge” (Park Theatre) isn’t dull exactly. It exhibits the high-toned, Masterpiece Theatre-style refinement that many people equate with “quality” moviemaking, and which some of us find a little dull. Like “A Room With a View” and “The Europeans” and “The Bostonians,” the new Merchant-Ivory film “Mr.
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