The Lovers on the Bridge

Director: Leos Carax

1991 / 125min / DCP

L’amour fou has rarely burned brighter on the screen than it does in Carax’s fabulous, florid, frantic folly, in which a hard-drinking street performer (Denis Lavant) and a homeless artist who’s losing her sight and her will to live along with it (Juliette Binoche) find solace in each other’s arms and a makeshift home above the Seine on Paris’s closed-for-repairs Pont Neuf bridge—in fact a colossal open-air set in the city of Lansargues. “An outrageously contrived paean to freedom, a crazy mixture of scabby naturalism and rock-video mescaline staged on a movie set worthy of Stroheim.” —J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

Distributor: Janus Films

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