Directed by:
Jacques RivetteCast:
Bulle Ogier, Jean-François Stévenin, Pierre Clémenti, Mathieu Schiffman, Pascale Ogier, Steve BaësPlots(1)
Le Pont du Nord envisions Paris as a sprawling game-board marked off with tucked-away conspiracies, where imagination and paranoia intermingle; where the hinted-at stakes are sanity, life, and death. Regular Rivette actress Bulle Ogier stars as Marie, a claustrophobic ex-con who, shortly after wandering into Paris, encounters the wild and potentially troubled young woman Baptiste (Pascale Ogier). Baptiste, a knife-wielding, self-proclaimed kung-fu expert with a drive to slash the eyes from faces in adverts (including, in one instance, those on a placard for Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha), accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover's (Pierre Clémenti's) suitcase: an amalgam of clippings, patterns, and maps of Paris that points to a vastly unsettling labyrinth replete with signs and intimations whose menacing endgame remains all too unclear. (Eureka Entertainment)
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Bulle Ogier
France
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Navire Night (1979)
Jean-François Stévenin
France
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Day for Night (1973)
Pocket Money (1976)
Pierre Clémenti
France
Best movies:
Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970)
Belle de Jour (1967)
The Leopard (1963)
Mathieu Schiffman
Best movies:
The Wild Child (1970)
The Inquisitor (1981)
Une robe noire pour un tueur (1981)
Pascale Ogier
France
Best movies:
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
Perceval (1978)
Steve Baës
Best movies:
Le Pont du Nord (1981)