Le Pont du Nord (North Bridge) -- Rivette (1981)

Le Pont du Nord -- Jacques Rivette (1981)

(AKA North Bridge)



Scenario: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Suzanne Schiffman, Jacques Rivette

Camera: Caroline Champetier, William Lubtchansky

Music: Astor Piazzolla



Cast:

Bulle Ogier ... Marie

Pascale Ogier ... Baptiste

Pierre Clementi ... Julien

Jean-Francois Stevenin ... Max

Benjamin Baltimore ... Max with the knife

Steve Baes ... Max with the coat

Joe Dann ... Card sharp

Mathieu Schiffman ... A Hungarian



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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.



"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).



The avi is a Karagarga rip from a Japanese DVD.

The English subs are my work. For some screenshots see

http://freakyflicks.proboards54.com/index.cgi?board=6&action=display&thread=2623





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