Le Pont du Nord (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 17, 2015
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bulle Ogier & Pascale Ogier | |
Performer: | Jean-François Stévenin, Pierre Clémenti & Steve Baes | |
Directed by | Jacques Rivette | |
Screenwriting by | Jacques Rivette, Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier & Suzanne Schiffman | |
Composition by | Astor Piazzolla | |
Director of Photography: | William Lubtchansky & Caroline Champetier |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Modern life is the gauntlet run by these characters, though the film's bizarre, fascinatingly bitter finale ponders whether survival (and assimilation) is preferable to leaving it all behind.
Time Out
It seems more obvious than ever how much Rivette has influenced a subsequent generation of filmmakers-Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry-and expanded our sense of the possible.
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Village Voice
Rating: 3/4 --
The whole movie seems made of rebar.
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Boston Globe
In Rivette's rhapsodically probing view, the labyrinthine city of recondite romanticism and the bloody ideals of revolutionary heroism appear fated to vanish together ...
New Yorker
Rating: 3/4 --
A stimulating document of a city in flux.
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Slant Magazine
What the Surrealists found in Louis Feuillade's World War I serials, we can find here. [Jacques] Rivette too renders the ordinary dreamlike by filming his fantasy-driven actors in the midst of life.
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ARTINFO.com
This entertaining and provocative work by the now 85-year-old director fits into his oeuvre as a complement to his best known movie among American art-film fans.
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Arts Fuse
Product Description:
In this unreal walk through the streets of Paris, Marie (Bulle Ogier), a woman convicted of robbing a bank is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste (Pascale Ogier) a young paranoid needing companionship, and the two team up for awhile. Marie's former boyfriend (Pierre Clementi) supplies them with a strange map of the city, suspicious because he keeps files on political figures that may be somehow linked to the map. A gangster nicknamed "Max" begins to track Marie and the already paranoid Baptiste, causing Marie to examine the map as though it held the clue to which sides of the city were "safe" and which were not. As the two women attempt to outsmart Max and unknown gangsters, they try to figure out the map - a task made all the more difficult by Baptiste's tendency to violent rushes of adrenaline and Marie's overworked imagination (a dragon at the North Bridge is a threat until Baptiste screams him down). Between the dragon and their own demons, Marie and Baptiste face frightening odds against coming out of this misadventure intact.