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A River Runs Through It (1992)

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As Robert Redford put it aptly in his forward to the beautiful novella by Norman Maclean, "I was not sure River could be made into a film. The story is slight and relies heavily on Norman’s voice as narrator. It is a maddeningly elusive piece, dancing away from the reader like the boxer Norman had once been, then coming in fast to whack you between the eyes with the beauty of its language or in the solar plexus with the depth of its emotion." Indeed the film only superficially lives up to the book, but that isn't to say that you shouldn't see it. It was well cast, and the scenery is as I imagined it to be -- it won the Oscar for Best Cinematography, which is a kind of consolation prize if you make a movie like this. In short, if you read the book, which you should, then you will certainly want to catch Redford's take on it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105265/