Back Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Catalan Milenci z Pont-Neuf Czech Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf Welsh Die Liebenden von Pont-Neuf German Οι εραστές της γέφυρας Greek Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Esperanto Los amantes del Pont Neuf Spanish Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Basque Pont-Neufin rakastavaiset Finnish Les Amants du Pont-Neuf French
| Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | |
|---|---|
 Film Poster, ©Gaumont 1991 | |
| Directed by | Leos Carax |
| Written by | Leos Carax |
| Produced by | Christian Fechner |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Edited by | Nelly Quettier |
| Music by | Les Rita Mitsouko David Bowie Arvo Pärt |
| Distributed by | Gaumont |
Release date |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (French pronunciation: [lez‿amɑ̃ dy pɔ̃ nœf]) is a 1991 French romantic drama film directed by Leos Carax, starring Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant. The film follows a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would-be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives, and Michèle, a painter with a disease that is slowly turning her blind. The streets, skies and waterways of Paris are used as a backdrop for the story in a series of set-pieces set during the French Bicentennial celebrations in 1989.
The film became notorious for its troubled and lengthy production and for the amount of money it was reported to have cost. It has been referred to several times as the most expensive French film ever made at the time of its release, although this has been contested.
The title refers to the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris. For various reasons, the film-makers ultimately built a scale replica of the bridge, which greatly increased the budget. Though it was released under its original title in other English-speaking territories, the North American title of the film is The Lovers on the Bridge,[1][2] and, in a mistranslation of the original title, the Australian title is Lovers on the Ninth Bridge (instead of "Lovers on the New Bridge").[3][a]
- ^ The Lovers on the Bridge, DVDBeaver (illustrates the front covers of the North American Region 1 DVD and the British Region 2 DVD)
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Hayes 1999, p. 200.
- ^ Everett 2006, p. 210.
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