Le Pont du Nord. 1981. Directed by Jacques Rivette

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Le Pont du Nord. 1981. France. Directed by Jacques Rivette. Courtesy Janus Films

Le Pont du Nord. 1981. France. Directed by Jacques Rivette. Screenplay by Rivette, Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Suzanne Schiffman. With Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti. 35mm. In French; English subtitles. 129 min.

Le Pont du Nord unites the great Bulle Ogier with her daughter, Pascale Ogier, as marginal characters who fatefully meet and become embroiled in a bizarre government conspiracy that may, or may not, be the product of their own paranoid fantasies. The tango of these seeming strangers, set to an evocative score by Astor Piazzola, plays out in a Paris of labyrinthine quartiers where time, space, and even genre—a Mack Sennett slapstick comedy? A Louis Feuillade detective serial? A German Expressionist nightmare?—become hopelessly mixed up. It is, in a word, Rivette’s take on the classic French board game Jeu de l’oie.

This film accompanies Bulle Ogier: A Tribute.

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