Le Pont Du Nord DVD
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play SYNOPSIS The culmination of New Wave master Jacques Rivette ' s legendary middle period (which ranged from L' Amour fou through Out 1 C &233;line and Julie Go Boating Duelle Noro&238;t and Merry - Go - Round) 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 Bulle's actual 22 - year - old daughter) 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 Cl &233;menti'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 Gorgeously shot by the master cinematographer William Lubtchansky Le Pont du Nord is a free - wheeling powerful experience whose hypnotic rhythm and ominous undercurrents resolve into a frightening and exhilarating portrait of post - revolutionary early - ' 80s Paris - and in turn form a prime example of Rivette's uncanny occult cinema The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Jacques Rivette ' s rare and essential feature Le Pont du Nord on DVD for the first time anywhere in the world Directors Jacques RIVETTEFormat PALLanguage FrenchSubtitles EnglishRegion Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats)Number of discs 1
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