Year 1981 Video Release 2015-02-17 Studio Kino Lorber Genre Comedy MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 128 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Le Pont du Nord 1981 is an entrancing puzzle film with the city of Paris as a continually shifting game board. It is one of director Jacques Rivette's most mysterious and haunting works, a dark companion piece to Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 . 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 at exclusively outdoor locations by the great cinematographers William Lubtchansky Shoah, Every Man for Himself, Regular Lovers and Caroline Champetier Holy Motors , Le Pont du Nord is surreal, gorgeous and heartbreaking, and is surely one of Rivette's greatest works. Director Jacques Rivette Cast Jacques Rivette; Bulle Ogier; Pascale Ogier; Pierre Clementi