call me romantic

I agree, I always just went to pieces when Alan Alda finally grieves with Ellen Burstyn's character for the first time obviously since Michael's death. I was less than 10 during that era, but I had 2 brothers in the draft. I understand exactly how he held his grief in and the trauma that runs so deep with some hurts. It's amazing that we will open up to a stranger when we will not let our own family in. I'm watching that part now and I put myself in his place with the many deaths in my family that happened in such a short time. This movie addresses so many topics that bowled me over in 1978 and as a result it still does.

Merovingian Goddess
"There's Walkers in the Barn and Lori's Pregnant"

although the film is entertaining in its way, i don't find adultery romantic so don't really see it like that, especially this rather cold blooded, calculating 'once a year' arrangement. if they were carried away by passion I might feel some sympathy for them, but how can you be passionate about someone and only see them once a year?