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A lot of fun.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This film is just like a watercolor painted on the Seine with fireworks, or a poem that is quietly placed on the pillow before bed. If you dream of a person, you'd better see him immediately after you wake up. At first thought, this film could be a class tragedy of Leos Carax, however, it finally turned out to be a pure romantic atmosphere that can make audience suffocate. From the burning human under the heavy rain to the weak candle light in front a blind girl. All these ultimate visual plots are perfect The characters are faultlessly built by Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant in the extreme emotion, and finally left a magnificent masterpiece.

This "romantic" film was just so depressing and so unrealistic - it made it impossible for me to feel any sympathy or empathy for the 2 main characters and their desperate and desolate lives. I kept watching in the vain hope I'd find some redeeming feature but failed miserably. One has to have a touch of masochism to sit through this 2 hour endurance course! I came away with nothing that enriched my heart or mind in any way. It was just depressing watching these characters on their self-destructive binge! How love could sprout or thrive under such conditions and with such false motives is beyond me. One could only watch it in a detached way as it was just impossible to understand or identify with the main characters. Avoid it like the plague!

Leos Carax's film The Lovers on the Bridge isn't remarkable for its characterizations or its plot, although both of these elements are certainly adequate. Rather, it's remarkable for a few otherworldy scenes of unusual cinematic power. One such scene consists of the titular lovers (Alex, a deranged, fire-eating street performer and Michelle, a painter with a rare eye disease, both vagrants) on the otherwise deserted bridge (closed for renovation) during the Paris bicentennial fireworks celebration. As they cavort about the bridge the massive light show seems to have been arranged for the sole benefit of this unlikely pair; Carax absolutely makes the most of this sequence and the result is one of the most amazing scenes in cinema.Another remarkable sequence involves posters that Alex notices, first one in isolation and then all over the city, that he decides he must destroy to protect his burgeoning relationship with Michelle. It's surreal when he sets dozens of them on fire in a deserted subway; it's nightmarish when he finds a truck load of them and accidentally burns the driver along with his cargo.The Lovers on the Bridge shows a side of Paris that most films don't: while it is capable of creating beautiful sights like the fireworks show it's also a place full of dirty vagrants who form obsessive attachments not only to abandoned bridges but to each other as well, people who are capable of astonishing acts of violence and self destruction. Carax captures all this with a flair that enables him to transcend the thin plot he's working with and in so doing create a magical piece of cinema.

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf is a brilliant movie. The film shows the essence of love not by a platonic sublimation of our flesh desires. No, the essence is revelled by showing this particular human felling blossom in the dirt of the street and the sour of the garbage. At the beginning you will be repulse by the sordid shoots and the vagrant lovers, but as the minutes pass on and the strange story is revelled a delicate beauty emerge from the rotten flesh, it is love itself, love that is not a mere act, not an image of the other but madness (the boy) and abnegation (the girl). This film is beautiful because it's forcing you to see beyond the material.The two actors put quite a show, Juliette Binoche is extraordinary in the sad role of an artist that slowly loses sight. Beside the catharsis the story is worth watching for the inedited light that is put on the pour illuminated life of the vagrants in a big city.