Northside Cafe - "Bridges of Madison County"
N 41° 20.123 W 094° 00.837
15T E 415158 N 4576484
This is the cafe where Robert(Clint Eastwood) meets Lucy Redfield (Michelle Benes)
Waymark Code: WM9FCC
Location: Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 08/13/2010
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Wikipedia The Bridges of Madison
Wikipedia
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 American romantic drama film based on
the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller. It was produced by Amblin
Entertainment and Malpaso Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros.. The film
was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with Kathleen Kennedy as co-producer
and the screenplay was adapted by Richard LaGravenese. The film stars Eastwood
and Meryl Streep, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in
1996 for her performance in the film.
The film is set in the summer of 1965. It tells the story of Francesca (Meryl
Streep), a lonely, insightful Italian housewife in Iowa. While her husband and
children are away at the Illinois State Fair, she meets and falls in love with a
photographer (Clint Eastwood) who has come to Madison County, Iowa to shoot a
photographic essay for National Geographic on the covered bridges in the area.
The four days they spend together are a turning point in her life and she writes
of her experience in a diary which is discovered by her children after her death
and they are stunned by it.
In this screen shot Robert (Clint Eastwood) has a coffee and offers a vacant
seat to Lucy Redfield(Michelle Bennes)
Lucy is being ostracized by the town after their discovery of her affair with Mr
Delaney
Here is a photo of the Northside cafe from my visit to Winterset,Iowa
I had some dinner in Clint's spot (fourth one from the door)
Here is a shot of the exterior of the restaurant
Memorable Quotes
"The old dreams were good dreams; they
didn't work out, but glad I had
them"
"I realized love won't obey our expectations. Its mystery is pure and
absolute. What Robert and I had could not continue if we were together. What
Richard and I shared would vanish if we were apart. But how I wanted to share
this. How would our lives have changed if I had? Could anyone else have seen the
beauty of it?"
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