There are many moments of humor and wisdom in the unconventional courtship, not to mention genuine, almost painful emotion.
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:10
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Simply put, LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE is one of the most exhilarating motion pictures of the 1990s. In building a replica of the famed Parisian Pont-Neuf bridge, Carax's film became the most expensive... Simply put, LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE is one of the most exhilarating motion pictures of the 1990s. In building a replica of the famed Parisian Pont-Neuf bridge, Carax's film became the most expensive French film ever produced, up to that point. This budget controversy threatened to overshadow the film itself, which has slowly begun to garner the proper recognition it deserves (thanks to Martin Scorsese and Miramax's American rerelease in the summer of 1999). Lavant portrays Alex, a drug-addicted, fire eating homeless man who lives on the deserted bridge, which is being restored for the French Revolution Bicentennial Celebration. When Michele stumbles into his life, a desperate, passionate relationship unfolds. Michele is an artist who is losing her eyesight due to a bizarre disease. But plot isn't the issue here. The sheer visual spectacle is. Shifting from brutal documentary to romantic melodrama to surrealism, Carax's THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE is an electric, powerful, poetic picture. [More]
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Edith Scob
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Edith Scob
Director: Leos Carax
Director: Leos Carax
Producer: Christian Fechner
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Jan 13, 2004
Reviews for The Lovers on the Bridge
I found the characters fascinating, and although they seemed far too melodramatic in their gestures of obsessive love, I enjoyed the spectacle of their adventures.
What destroys the film is the way it can't possibly come close to justifying its characters' choices, or its own.
Leos Carax's inspiration for this film was Jean Vigo's masterpiece "L'Atalante" (1934).
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