At the north bridge
| Movie | |
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| German title | At the north bridge |
| Original title | Le Pont du Nord |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 127 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Rivette |
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| production | Martine Marignac |
| music | "Libertango" and "Violentango" by Astor Piazzolla |
| camera |
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| cut | Nicole Lubtchansky |
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An der Nordbrücke (original title: Le Pont du Nord ) is a film by Jacques Rivette from 1982.
action
Paris, October or November 1980. Four days in the lives of Marie and Baptiste. The very first insert makes it clear that you will see a fairy tale: "il ya déjà longtemps - a long time ago", even a cruel ending. Marie is about forty years old with a terrorist past. When she arrives back in Paris, she has just been released from prison, where she has served a sentence for robbing a bank. It is now difficult to take it in closed rooms. Baptiste is a young woman of maybe twenty. She wants to take on many opponents: With the lion statues to be found in various Parisian places, with the eyes of those depicted on advertising posters and especially with the "Max". She relies on the strength of her karate gestures. She always sees fate at work. When she runs into Marie for the third time, she says: Twice, that could be coincidence, but three times, that was fate. So she decides to stay with Marie.
Marie gets in touch with her friend Julien. He repeatedly emphasizes that he still loves her, but what game he actually plays remains obscure. For example, what is his collection of newspaper cuts about various murder cases and political affairs?
One of the characters that Baptiste identifies as a "Max" is apparently shadowing that Julien, and he even warns Marie that she is in danger from Julien. She doesn't want to know anything about it.
First, the paths of Maries and Baptistes lead to central Parisian locations, once - during a rendezvous between Maries and Julien - to the viewing platform of the Arc de Triomphe. But when they find a map of Paris in Julien's briefcase, on which a spiral leading from the center to the periphery is drawn, their path also leads to the barren outskirts - the plan looks like child's play, like a jeu de l'oie , says Marie.
In the end, Baptiste has the death of a young man on her conscience, just because she also thought he was a "Max", and Marie is shot by Julien. With the first "Max" who warned Marie, Baptiste finally improved her karate technique.
Varia
The title
There is no bridge called Pont du Nord in Paris. - Sur le Pont du Nord is an old French song with a sad ending: there is a ball on the Pont du Nord. Although their mother forbade them, Adèle and her brother go to this ball. The bridge collapses, the children drown, and the song ends with the words: “Tel est le sort des enfants obstinés - this is how disobedient children end”.
The character Marie
Bulle Ogier: “We started with Fassbinder's Die third Generation , in which I played a German terrorist. We envisioned a continuation of this girl's story. ... The girl (from the Fassbinder film) has given up her terrorist activities for several years; in order to live and to survive she committed raids; (now) she's coming out of prison. "
The figure of Baptiste
Baptiste can be seen, as Rivette and Bulle Ogier have said, as a modern version of Don Quixote, albeit far removed from the original : like Don Quixote, she fights against imaginary monsters, his horse Rosinante has become Baptiste's rattling moped, with which she is arrives in Paris, and the knight's armor has become a leather jacket, motorcycle helmet and a few metal chains.
The jeu de l'oie - the goose game
Marie and Baptiste believe that they can identify several stations on their way through Paris on the map with the drawn spiral as fields from the goose play : the bridge, the hostel, the fountain, the labyrinth, etc.
literature
- Susanne Röckel : Review of the film, in: Filmkritik , No. 309 of September 1982, pp. 399–404.
- Jan Paaz and Sabine Bubeck (eds.): Jacques Rivette - Labyrinthe . Center d'Information Cinématographique de Munich, Revue CICIM 33 from June 1991. ISBN 3-920727-04-5 . Pp. 95-100; including texts on the film by Rivette and Bulle Ogier.
- Mary M. Wiles: Jacques Rivette (= Contemporary Film Directors ), University of Illinois Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-252-07834-7 . Therein pp. 73-77. (English)
Web links
- On the north bridge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A list of all identified locations, with screenshots, on the website: The Cine Tourist . (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The full text of Sur le Pont du Nord z. B. here .
- ↑ Bulle Ogier, originally in: Le Monde from March 25, 1981, German translation in: Jan Paaz and Sabine Bubeck (eds.): Jacques Rivette - Labyrinthe , p. 100.
- ^ Jacques Rivette and Bulle Ogier, German translations in: Jan Paaz and Sabine Bubeck (eds.): Jacques Rivette - Labyrinthe , p. 96 and 98, respectively.