The Lovers on the Bridge

This movie has some brilliant moments. The film shows love between homeless people without pulling punches. Carax makes Alex especially tough to root for, and ultimately this is the Achilles heel of the movie. I really would like to give this a higher score, because there are so many fantastic scenes, exhilirating moments and bold choices. But I'm not too comfortable accepting the Alex character on the level that I think Carax is asking me to.

Feels like a livelier, more ragged Jim Jarmusch film, chronicling the lives of two people on society's margins, who exist mostly during those hours in which normal people are fast asleep, and the city seems to come to eerie life. Its love story is strangely touching, and the film is full of spectacular and surreal moments.

a selfish bum and a blind runaway fall in love on a broken bridge. very, very different to [holy motors], and while it definitely shares that one's aesthetic inconsistency, i was enraptured the moment the extraordinary fireworks sequence hit. its disparate artistic choices somehow come together to make a unique and emotionally powerful love story. and yes, it's a love story, but hey! it's great. and the ending works on a gut level, even if i have some reservations (which martinteller mentions).

The fireworks canal surfing scene was really quite a spectacle and very inspired. But I struggle to find other very positive things to say about this movie. It's the kind of love story that you often find in French cinema: it has this very labored, rigid romanticism, it's never heartfelt despite, or partly because of, how everything is very contrived to be symbolic or meaningful. But it's also because the characters just don't really work at all.

01 Temmuz 09 & benim anladigim kadinin ihtiyaclari dogrultusunda sevdigidir. kadin aldatilir, ask acisi ceker ve sokaklara gidip onu aldatamayacak bir adam bulur: Alex. Kadin, korlesir, tedavi olmak icin Alex'i terkeder ve doktoruyla bir iliskiye baslar.Alex'te bu sirada bu kadin icin metroyu & adamlari yakmis,bu yuzden hapistedir.Bir sure sonra kadinin icinde bir bosluk olusur ve bnu doldurmak adina hapistn cikmasina aylar kalan Alex'e geri doner. Gercek ask Alex'in yasadigidir, tek kisiliktir.

There are some great images, but I wasn't able to get into this as much as I would have liked. Juliette Binoche is dependably amazing.

The world crumbling around us and in the ruins of desperation we cling to anything that resembles love. Forgotten peoples in capitalist decay. Gorgeous set piece after gorgeous set piece.

Up there with the Beach Bum and Adventureland for the best fireworks scene in cinema. Cinema as pure emotion.

of course the guy who penned "i feast my eyes to feed my dreams" made a romance between a woman who's going blind and a man who can't sleep.

Carax is better at his wildest. Here, he can't seem to escape his self-serious, Euroartsy-but-not-too-artsy formula.

Carax's most exquisite feature -- and, yes, also his most accessible -- closures Lavant's sort of trilogy as this guy named Alex, in a vibrant, insane and strange story of love, fear and desire. Best directing effort by the french auteur, in which every travelling seems emotionally resonant and the editing resembles the very state of mind of these two lovers -- he's desperate to keep her, she tells him he has to be patience with her. PS: best firework sequence ever.

Impressive combination of a visceral style with an almost surreal quality and a grimy bleak tone that takes those contrasting elements, reflects them on the characters and comes out as more than the sum of its parts. It shows the pleasure trying to hide the pain and does it in a way that neither exaggerates nor trivializes the characters and their feelings, and is a stronger film for this emotional, if not factual, sincerity.

Greatest romance since "Natural Born Killers". No. 1 for a "movie night" with someone met on Tinder.

This is a slow but beautiful film covering an unusual romance between two homeless people in Paris. Binoche and Lavant are both excellent. The quality of most of it is probably closer to a 75 or so, but it's bumped up by one of the best scenes I think I've ever seen--a scene involving fireworks. That scene is just pure magic. The last (or close to last shot) looks just like one of the most memorable scenes from Titanic--I would be surprised if the Titanic scene wasn't inspired by it.

The end of the Alex trilogy. Two broken souls bridging the gap between realities that exist and one they create together. Some really great moments that one can immerse in for the cinematic pleasure.

Plenty of wonderful moments and images, but Leos Carax utterly fails to make Denis Lavant's character sympathetic, which means it fails as a romance. Lavant's decision to use his clowning skills might suit other Carax films, but does not work here at all.

Beautiful images on display here, but for me it was all rendered moot by a largely disengaging story, two fine actors portraying unlikable and uninteresting characters.

For a while I had hopeful feelings about this film, but already before the fireworks and waterskiing it had started to become annoying: Carax's contrivances just don't appeal to me at all, and the dialogue, which seemed to want to conjure some kind of offbeat romantic charm, was at times leaden. I can see that effort was expended, even effort of thought somehow, but I can't figure out for what positive result. I guess sometimes you just have to throw a girl off a bridge to make a point.

"The heart is not broken, in the sense that it does not exist before the break. But it is the break itself that makes the heart. The heart is not an organ, and neither is it a faculty. It is: that I is broken and traversed by the other where its presence is most intimate and its life most open. The beating of the heart – rhythm of the partition of being, syncope of the sharing of singularity – cuts across presence, life, consciousness. " Jean-Luc Nancy, Inoperative Community

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Great cinematography! Incredible acting!

90's classic.

ah juliette ah, yine ele geçirdin bütün bedenimi.

Takes a bit to get going, but has loads and loads of fresh, surprising scenes. The story is well-paced too, even if the love between the two characters doesn't completely come across. But who cares when there's so much to look at?

Some good moments,but just didn't find the characters interesting or the love story believable

I think "love" is a weak word when you are so afraid of losing someone that you would rather they go blind, right?

Great performances, beautiful cinematography, love story and a high degree of Madness. What else can I ask for?

Brash and big-hearted, The Lovers on the Bridge can sweep away most viewers with its mad romanticism.

gokyuzu bembeyaz.

Leos Carax #1

Interesting mix of grim, uncomfortable realism and pie-in-the-sky romanticism.

Beautiful work by the great Escoffier, as always.

At times it's like a gritty re-imagining of "City Lights". Binoche and Lavant in the same film is some cinema magic you'd think wouldn't exist.

At least James Cameron steals from good movies now and then...

The plot is absurd and I somewhat disliked the ending but the strength of the direction alone carries this a long way. Several fantastic scenes. Binoche and Lavant are both really great.

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Grimy and irrelevant - but love shines thru

Crazy. Crazy in love. A rave of color. Fascinating.

No. Absolutely not. There is a scene like 15 minutes in where Alex runs really fast away despite having a broken leg. Why? Why do you gotta run like that it is so repulsive and disgusting. Just walk man. Calm down.

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Beautiful girl lives under the bridge.

Os Amantes de Pont-Neuf estreava há 30 anos na França. A última vez que vi esse filme tem quase trinta anos, ainda é um belo trabalho do Carax. Plus: Carax ama mesmo o Bowie, mas quem não ama? BlurayRip no MakingOff.