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Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 4 wins & 8 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaLeos Carax was originally given permission to use the real Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris and have it closed for filming but delays in filming meant the permission expired and he had to reconstruct the whole thing on a lake near Montpellier, France. The construction of a new version of the Pont-Neuf - and its surrounding buildings in Paris - helped make the film one of the most expensive French films ever made.
- GoofsJust before Alex jumps out of the speedboat, a crew person is visible hunched down in ninja clothing to pilot the boat.
- Quotes
Michèle Stalens: The people in our dreams, we should call them when we wake up. It would make life simpler. "Hello, I dreamed of you. Love woke me".
- Crazy creditsAfter the last end title, during a fraction of a second, there is a
handwritten inscription "à Luje - Amour - A." (To Luje - Love - A.)
A. stands for Alexandre (Leos Carax' real first name) and Luje for
Juliette (Binoche).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Enquête sur un film au-dessus de tout soupçon (1991)
- SoundtracksTime Will Crawl
Written and performed by David Bowie
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A masterpiece.
Watching "Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf" I kept telling myself that only the French could have made it and that the ghosts of Prevert and Carne and especially Vigo were hovering above that famous bridge. Alex and Michele are as much the children of paradise as were Garance or Baptiste. They are tramps living on the streets of Paris or more precisely on the now derelict Pont-Neuf bridge, (it's being renovated), and to someone who isn't French their love affair is very Gallic. No ordinary tramps, he is a fire-eating acrobat and she is a painter who is going blind and since they are played by the remarkable Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche you know their story will be as grand as it may be tragic.
This was only Leos Carax's third film but it confirmed him as one of the best directors working in movies and not just in France. It's a visually bold, near epic picture and at the time of its release was not considered a success; it was thought of as old-fashioned. Now, of course, it's thought of as the masterpiece it clearly is but while it confirmed Carax's artistry it could just as easily have ended his career. It was eight years until his next feature and since then he's only made one other film by himself, the brilliant "Holy Motors", (he is credited as one of the three directors of "Tokyo").
It hardly matters, of course, that "Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf" is fanciful and unrealistic, a paean of praise to cinema and not to life, (this is really "L'Atalante" in just another guise), but then isn't that why we go to the cinema in the first place? Let us hope it's not too long before Carax is enchanting us once again with his magic. We, and the cinema, need him.
This was only Leos Carax's third film but it confirmed him as one of the best directors working in movies and not just in France. It's a visually bold, near epic picture and at the time of its release was not considered a success; it was thought of as old-fashioned. Now, of course, it's thought of as the masterpiece it clearly is but while it confirmed Carax's artistry it could just as easily have ended his career. It was eight years until his next feature and since then he's only made one other film by himself, the brilliant "Holy Motors", (he is credited as one of the three directors of "Tokyo").
It hardly matters, of course, that "Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf" is fanciful and unrealistic, a paean of praise to cinema and not to life, (this is really "L'Atalante" in just another guise), but then isn't that why we go to the cinema in the first place? Let us hope it's not too long before Carax is enchanting us once again with his magic. We, and the cinema, need him.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
- Filming locations
- Boulevard de Sebastopol, Paris, France(Car hits Lavant)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $28,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $29,679
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $21,482
- Jul 4, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $29,679
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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