Where the river flows
Leave your preconceived notions about fly fishing and get caught.
This moving and powerful film is directed by Robert Redford and based on an autobiographical novel by Norman MacLean. The movie is about brothers Paul and Norman who grow up as the sons of a pastor in the mountains of Montana in the early 1900s. Norman, played by Craig Sheffer, is the proper one while a young Brad Pitt plays the rebel Paul.
What unites the three men is their love of fly fishing.
The film won an Oscar in 1993 for Philippe Rousselot's stunning cinematography.
"Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."
