Fresh
The whole movie seems made of rebar.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Le Pont du Nord
1982 · 2h 9m · NOT RATED
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Jacques Rivette
Overview
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a maze spotted with mysterious traps, puzzling clues, and chance encounters. Maybe they are bricks in some sinister scheme, maybe they are playing a board game, maybe it's a fairy tale, maybe it's yet something else...
Director and cast
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100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
In Rivette's rhapsodically probing view, the labyrinthine city of recondite romanticism and the bloody ideals of revolutionary heroism appear fated to vanish together ...
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh
Modern life is the gauntlet run by these characters, though the film's bizarre, fascinatingly bitter finale ponders whether survival (and assimilation) is preferable to leaving it all behind.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
Fresh
It seems more obvious than ever how much Rivette has influenced a subsequent generation of filmmakers-Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry-and expanded our sense of the possible.
Scott Foundas, Village Voice
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