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Le Pont du Nord

1982 · 129 min

A wandering, dreamlike puzzle that turns Paris into a board game, rewarding patience with quiet unease and playful mystery.

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...

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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • identity
  • isolation
  • fate
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour4
Realism5
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
mystery, drama, comedy
Directed by
Jacques Rivette
Written by
Pascale Ogier, Suzanne Schiffman, Bulle Ogier, Jacques Rivette
Starring
Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-François Stévenin, Benjamin Baltimore, Steve Baës, Mathieu Schiffman
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
129 min
Country
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Languages
French

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