Bamcinématek Presents the US Theatrical Premiere of Jacques Rivette’S Through-The-Looking Glass Thriller Le Pont Du Nord, Mar 22—28
BAMcinématek presents the US theatrical premiere of Jacques Rivette’s through-the-looking glass thriller Le Pont du Nord, Mar 22—28 One week only! New 35mm print! “The most alive movie I saw at the festival. Leaves me with a whole album of indelible images and unnerving emotions.”—Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1981 New York Film Festival The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor of BAM Rose Cinemas and BAMcinématek. Brooklyn, NY/Feb 28, 2013—From Friday, March 22, through Thursday, March 28, BAMcinématek presents the US theatrical premiere run of Jacques Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord (1981), screening in a new 35mm print. A puzzle, a hallucinatory cinephilic fever dream, and a spellbinding, through-the-looking glass thriller as only French New Wave titan Rivette could make, Le Pont du Nord plays like the darker, conspiracy theory-obsessed cousin of the director’s beloved Céline and Julie Go Boating. This tale of two women follows ex-con Marie (Bulle Ogier), just out of prison, and Baptiste (Ogier’s real-life daughter Pascale, who died two years later at the age of 25), who embark on a surreal, labyrinthine odyssey through a wintry Paris. The film is replete with mysterious clues, codes, traps, and spies and unfolds as “underworld and wonderland merge in the open air; joyous whimsy blurs with justified worry; and Rivette risks exploring the scarifying powers of fantasy and paranoia with a panning, punning documentary eye” (Paul Taylor, Time Out London). Rivette, in collaboration with Bulle and Pascale Ogier as well as Oscar-nominated screenwriter Suzanne Schiffman, made Le Pont du Nord on a shoestring budget with a largely improvised script.
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