Le Pont du Nord 1981 DVDRip XViD

"Le pont du nord" is one of Rivette's darker films exploiting the same


vein of paranoia as was present in the earlier "Paris nous appartient". The


ambiguous nature of the threat is never resolved, but it has real and


tragic consequences. Rivette's special ability is to make this


ambiguity resonate within us, so that we find our own emotional


interpretation. The score combines city sounds with eruptions of


Piazzolla's tango music (Libertango, Violentango).


STORY: Marie and Baptiste exist on the margins of Parisian society,


and are both homeless. By chance (Marie), or by fate (Baptiste) they


uncover a sinister plot involving Marie's lover Julien, and a group of


powerful and shadowy figures called 'the Max'. The key to the plot is


a spiderweb or snail design from a children's game which can be


overlaid on a map of Paris. In an attempt to solve the mystery their


trajectory spirals outwards from the city center with its great


monuments and boulevards to a world of street markets, deserted train


stations and suburban wastelands, and eventually converges on the


North Bridge.