Le Pont du Nord (1981) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

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Ronald, Amazon has mis-spelt the title, it should be
"Le PONT du Nord".

Uh, David, I spelled it exactly as presented on Amazon...

...that is, unless, they got it wrong and thus I did.

They did! It ain't you!

David,

Thank You. I re-edited the title to reflect your correction.

You're a gentleman. History will prove you correct!!!

And French grammar!

Explains why I could only find the French Blu...

"One of the year's ten best. A loose, funny, largely improvised film in the form of a game." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

"Renders the ordinary dreamlike..."
- J. Hoberman, Blouin ArtInfo

"Magnificent." - Melissa Anderson, Artforum

"Watching the film now, on the occasion of its first release in U.S. theaters, it seems more obvious than ever how much Rivette has influenced a subsequent generation of filmmakers - Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry - and expanded our sense of the possible."
- Scott Foundas, Village Voice





















NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 21, 2015 - Kino Lorber is proud to announce the Blu-ray and DVD release of LE PONT DU NORD, an enigmatic and entrancing cinematic puzzle directed by award-winning filmmaker and French New Wave innovator Jacques Rivette (Celine and Julie Go Boating). Set in Paris, the luminously-photographed film centers around Marie and Baptiste (played by Bulle Ogier and her daughter Pascale Ogier) who follow Marie's ex-lover (Pierre Clementi) around a labyrinthine Paris on a surreal and mysterious journey that leads them from one clue to another but provides no clear answers.

Set to street on February 17, LE PONT DU NORD comes to Blu-ray (SRP: $29.95) and DVD (SRP: $24.95) packed with special features, including a booklet with the original press notes and an essay by Dennis Lim, "Mapping LE PONT DU NORD", an image-essay by Roland-François Lack, and "Composites", a video-essay by Gina Telaroli.

Originally released in 1981, this important film from one of the leading directors in world cinema had its US Theatrical Premiere release by The Film Desk, opening at BAM in March 2013 to great acclaim before going on to play in other key national markets.









SYNOPSIS:

Marie (Bulle Ogier, L'amour Fou, Maitresse) has just been released from prison, and encounters the paranoid loner Baptiste (Pascale Ogier, Full Moon in Paris). They follow Marie's ex-lover Julien (Pierre Clementi) and his talismanic briefcase as Paris begins to open up to them as a series of enigmatic clues. The city is a labyrinth of possibilities but no certainties, a place of fantastical fables (here be dragons) and the brute realities of the street.

Shot on luminous 16mm by the great cinematographers William Lubtchansky (Shoah, Every Man for Himself, Regular Lovers) and Caroline Champetier (I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar), LE PONT DU NORD is surreal, gorgeous, and heartbreaking, and is surely one of Rivette's greatest works.













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