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<pre>Le Pont du Nord -- Jacques Rivette (1981)
(AKA North Bridge)
Scenario: Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Suzanne Schiffman, Jacques Rivette
Camera: Caroline Champetier, William Lubtchansky
Music: Astor Piazzolla
Cast:
Bulle Ogier ... Marie
Pascale Ogier ... Baptiste
Pierre Clémenti ... Julien
Jean-François Stévenin ... Max
Benjamin Baltimore ... Max with the knife
Steve Baës ... Max with the coat
Joe Dann ... Card sharp
Mathieu Schiffman ... A Hungarian
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STORY: Marie and Baptiste exist on the margins of Parisian society,
and are both homeless. By chance (Marie), or by fate (Baptiste) they
uncover a sinister plot involving Marie's lover Julien, and a group of
powerful and shadowy figures called 'the Max'. The key to the plot is
a spiderweb or snail design from a children's game which can be
overlaid on a map of Paris. In an attempt to solve the mystery their
trajectory spirals outwards from the city center with its great
monuments and boulevards to a world of street markets, deserted train
stations and suburban wastelands, and eventually converges on the
North Bridge.
"Le pont du nord" is one of Rivette's darker films exploiting the same
vein of paranoia as was present in the earlier "Paris est a nous". The
ambiguous nature of the threat is never resolved, but it has real and
tragic consequences. Rivette's special ability is to make this
ambiguity resonate within us, so that we find our own emotional
interpretation. The score combines city sounds with eruptions of
Piazzolla's tango music (Libertango, Violentango).
The avi is a Karagarga rip from a Japanese DVD.
The Engish subs are my work.
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SPECS:
File Name .............: Pont_du_Nord.avi
File Size (in bytes) ..: 1,564,237,824 bytes
Runtime (# of frames) .: 2:03:33 (222141 frames)
Video Codec ...........: XviD ISO MPEG-4
Frame Size ............: 640x480 [=1.333]
FPS ...................: 29.970
Video Bitrate .........: 1297 kb/s
Bits per Pixel ........: 0.141 bpp
B-VOP, N-VOP, QPel, GMC ......: [B-VOP]...[]...[]...[]
Audio Codec ...........: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
Sample Rate ...........: 48000 Hz
Audio bitrate .........: 384 kb/s [2 channel(s)] CBR audio
Interleave ............: 96 ms
No. of audio streams ..: 1
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