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Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Director: Jacques Rivette
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A movie that pushes the conspiratorial playfulness of Rivette's Céline and Julie in directions both maddening and magical. Ogier and her daughter Pascale are here the crossed-paths comrades impulsively taking up the silent challenge of the city's codes: hopscotching the map of Paris' arrondissements and turning it into a life-size outdoor board game. As ever in Rivette's labyrinthine re-imaginings of the urban obstacle course, the rules and goals are obscure while the allusive clues, keys and signposts multiply alarmingly. Underworld and wonderland merge in the open air; joyous whimsy blurs with justified worry; and Rivette risks exploring the scarifying powers of fantasy and paranoia with a panning, punning documentary eye. With so many oblique strategies, a little irritation is inevitable...but if you could possibly imagine a pre-micro Tron, the leaps of faith needed here shouldn't be difficult.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Rivette
Producer: Margaret Ménégoz
Cast: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Jean-François Stévenin, Pierre Clémenti, Mathieu Schiffman full cast
Duration: 131 mins
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