Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)

Directed by

Leos Carax

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

France

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

R

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 383 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two homeless young people in Paris fall in love. Alex is an alcoholic and drug user who dreams of circus work. Michèle is a painter losing her sight.

melancholicintimatevisually lushslow-burnbleakromanticchaoticgritty

What happens

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (French pronunciation: [lez‿amɑ̃ dy pɔ̃ nœf]) is a 1991 French romantic drama film directed by Leos Carax, starring Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant. The film follows a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would-be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives, and Michèle, a painter with a disease that is slowly turning her blind. The streets, skies and waterways of Paris are used as a backdrop for the story in a series of set-pieces set during the French Bicentennial celebrations in 1989. The film became notorious for its troubled and lengthy production and for the amount of money it was reported to have cost. It has been referred to several times as the most expensive French film ever made at the time of its release, although this has been contested. The title refers to the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris. For various reasons, the film-makers ultimately built a scale replica of the bridge, which greatly increased the budget. Though it was released under its original title in other English-speaking territories, the North American title of the film is The Lovers on the Bridge, and, in a mistranslation of the original title, the Australian title is Lovers on the Ninth Bridge (instead of "Lovers on the New Bridge"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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