The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Leos Carax
Written By: Leos Carax
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Klaus-Michael Grüber, Georges Aperghis, Daniel Buain
AKAs: Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Lovers on the Pont-Neuf
Country: France
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MartinTeller | 85 84th |
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This movie has some brilliant moments. The film shows love between homeless people without pulling punches. Carax makes Alex especially tough to root for, and ultimately this is the Achilles heel of the movie. I really would like to give this a higher score, because there are so many fantastic scenes, exhilirating moments and bold choices. But I'm not too comfortable accepting the Alex character on the level that I think Carax is asking me to.
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Alex Watkins | 5 91st |
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Feels like a livelier, more ragged Jim Jarmusch film, chronicling the lives of two people on society's margins, who exist mostly during those hours in which normal people are fast asleep, and the city seems to come to eerie life. Its love story is strangely touching, and the film is full of spectacular and surreal moments.
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willofgaia | 85 58th |
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There are some great images, but I wasn't able to get into this as much as I would have liked. Juliette Binoche is dependably amazing.
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Moribunny | 43 30th |
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The fireworks canal surfing scene was really quite a spectacle and very inspired. But I struggle to find other very positive things to say about this movie. It's the kind of love story that you often find in French cinema: it has this very labored, rigid romanticism, it's never heartfelt despite, or partly because of, how everything is very contrived to be symbolic or meaningful. But it's also because the characters just don't really work at all.
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parcaliham | 85 77th |
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01 Temmuz 09 & benim anladigim kadinin ihtiyaclari dogrultusunda sevdigidir. kadin aldatilir, ask acisi ceker ve sokaklara gidip onu aldatamayacak bir adam bulur: Alex. Kadin, korlesir, tedavi olmak icin Alex'i terkeder ve doktoruyla bir iliskiye baslar.Alex'te bu sirada bu kadin icin metroyu & adamlari yakmis,bu yuzden hapistedir.Bir sure sonra kadinin icinde bir bosluk olusur ve bnu doldurmak adina hapistn cikmasina aylar kalan Alex'e geri doner. Gercek ask Alex'in yasadigidir, tek kisiliktir.
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PeaceAnarchy | 92 97th |
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Impressive combination of a visceral style with an almost surreal quality and a grimy bleak tone that takes those contrasting elements, reflects them on the characters and comes out as more than the sum of its parts. It shows the pleasure trying to hide the pain and does it in a way that neither exaggerates nor trivializes the characters and their feelings, and is a stronger film for this emotional, if not factual, sincerity.
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AFlickering | 7 95th |
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of course the guy who penned "i feast my eyes to feed my dreams" made a romance between a woman who's going blind and a man who can't sleep.
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moraesfelipe | 90 95th |
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Carax's most exquisite feature -- and, yes, also his most accessible -- closures Lavant's sort of trilogy as this guy named Alex, in a vibrant, insane and strange story of love, fear and desire. Best directing effort by the french auteur, in which every travelling seems emotionally resonant and the editing resembles the very state of mind of these two lovers -- he's desperate to keep her, she tells him he has to be patience with her. PS: best firework sequence ever.
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Rufam | 50 14th |
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Carax is better at his wildest. Here, he can't seem to escape his self-serious, Euroartsy-but-not-too-artsy formula.
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Darren | 90 91st |
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The world crumbling around us and in the ruins of desperation we cling to anything that resembles love. Forgotten peoples in capitalist decay. Gorgeous set piece after gorgeous set piece.
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Seethruskin | 6 95th |
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Up there with the Beach Bum and Adventureland for the best fireworks scene in cinema. Cinema as pure emotion.
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lisa- | 7 92nd |
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a selfish bum and a blind runaway fall in love on a broken bridge. very, very different to [holy motors], and while it definitely shares that one's aesthetic inconsistency, i was enraptured the moment the extraordinary fireworks sequence hit. its disparate artistic choices somehow come together to make a unique and emotionally powerful love story. and yes, it's a love story, but hey! it's great. and the ending works on a gut level, even if i have some reservations (which martinteller mentions).
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| Average Percentile 69.5% from 729 Ratings |  |