DIE LIEBENDEN VON PONT-NEUF

Whether plunging from the bridge into the waters of the Seine or as petty crooks who lull the patrons of a Parisian café into a sleep-inducing trance: Michèle and Alex fall together. They first meet when she is on the verge of going blind and escapes from her reality. What would be a stumbling block for conventional society is, for the couple, an invitation to a pas de deux into the next nocturnal adventure. Once derided by critics, now a French cult classic of the 1990s: in Leos Carax’s unique LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF, the tragedy of homelessness transforms into a fireworks display of emotions that mercilessly shatters the boundaries of love and bourgeois society, confronting harsh reality in an artistic, dreamlike manner with an amour fou.
(Lien May Lucas)