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      Le pont du nord

      1981 2h 9m Drama List
      100% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 78% 100+ Ratings Audience Score A parolee and a young street urchin become companions. Read More Read Less

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      J. Hoberman ARTINFO.com 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. Feb 22, 2019 Full Review Ty Burr Boston Globe The whole movie seems made of rebar. Rated: 3/4 Aug 8, 2013 Full Review Richard Brody New Yorker In Rivette's rhapsodically probing view, the labyrinthine city of recondite romanticism and the bloody ideals of revolutionary heroism appear fated to vanish together ... Mar 25, 2013 Full Review Betsy Sherman Arts Fuse 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. Aug 9, 2017 Full Review Sean Axmaker Parallax View The scenes... have a playful, meandering quality held together by Rivette's dashes of humor and visual punning and the bond created between the two women. Mar 14, 2015 Full Review David Noh Film Journal International The very slight charms of this picaresque, quite extended two-character stroll through Paris may well elude all but the most committed Jacques Rivette devotees. Mar 22, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member I never knew I wanted to see a punk rock French female version of Toshiro Mifune until I saw this. Really something else. I have no words. Surreal and gritty and fun. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Not exactly accessible, but a picture-esque break down of Paris and the French New-Wave. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review walter m Like Jacques Rivette's previous "Julie and Celine Go Boating," his film "Le Pont Du Nord" starts with a game of tag in Paris between two women, Marie(Bulle Ogier), who arrives in town on the back of a truck, and Baptiste(Pascale Ogier), who rides on a scooter. This games stops on the third try as Baptiste considers that it is fate that they keep running into each other. So, Baptiste who sees herself as something of a knight(she considers her leather jacket her armor) agrees to protect the more vulnerable Marie who is extremely claustrophobic after spending three years in jail and aid her in her search for Julien(Pierre Clementi) who carries a briefcase. The next game involves a map of Paris in Julien's briefcase that is marked off into separate squares. And as highly improvised as this bewildering movie feels at times(it does not have an ending, so much as comes to a sudden halt), it does actually have some coherent ideas on how Paris tries to overwrite its past, as Marie is forced to face the repercussions of her own radical past. This is conveyed ably by the movie's locations(unusually so for an urban set movie, about 98% of the locations are exteriors) of construction sites and abandoned railroad stations and other buildings. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member French take on the popular Don Quixote fable, this is one of the few (very, very few) films from the Nouvelle Vague that I actually like. Ambitious yet unpretentious, it is about Bulle Ogie's Marie and Pascale Ogie's Baptiste, friends who randomly meet and then decide to figure out a strange map of Paris in order to know which parts of the city are safe and which aren't and where they can house themselves following Marie having been convicted of robbing a bank and having to find a place she can run away to. It is surreal and has a dream like quality which adds to the proceedings but mostly it is fun and its protagonists likable. And, for a change where French cinema is concerned, people aren't just standing around talking which is a very good thing. My favourite Jacques Rivette film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Pascale Ogier is sooo freaking weird. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A parolee and a young street urchin become companions.
      Director
      Jacques Rivette
      Producer
      Martine Marignac, Margaret Ménégoz
      Screenwriter
      Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Suzanne Schiffman, Jacques Rivette
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 17, 2020
      Runtime
      2h 9m