Jacques Rivette – Le Pont du Nord (1981)

The culmination of New Wave master Jacques Rivette’s legendary middle period (which ranged from L’Amour fou through Out 1, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, Noroît, and Merry-Go-Round), Le Pont du Nord envisions Paris as a sprawling game-board marked off with tucked-away conspiracies, where imagination and paranoia intermingle; where the hinted-at stakes are sanity, life, and death.

Regular Rivette actress Bulle Ogier stars as Marie, a claustrophobic ex-con who, shortly after wandering into Paris, encounters the wild and potentially troubled young woman Baptiste (Pascale Ogier, Bulle’s actual 22-year-old daughter). Baptiste, a knife-wielding, self-proclaimed karate expert with a drive to slash the eyes from faces in adverts (including, in one instance, those on a placard for Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha), accompanies Marie on her quest to solve the mystery behind the contents of her former lover’s (Pierre Clémenti’s) suitcase: an amalgam of clippings, patterns, and maps of Paris that points to a vastly unsettling labyrinth replete with signs and intimations whose menacing endgame remains all too unclear.

Gorgeously shot by the master cinematographer William Lubtchansky, Le Pont du Nord is a freewheeling, powerful experience whose hypnotic rhythm and ominous undercurrents resolve into a frightening and exhilarating portrait of post-revolutionary, early-’80s Paris – and in turn form a prime example of Rivette’s uncanny, occult cinema.

Le.pont.du.Nord.1981.576p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-BV.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 8 min
Size: 	3.27 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 500 kb/s
BPP: 	0.320
Audio
#1:  	French 1.0ch AAC LC @ 124 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/3A97F93BB10C487/Le.pont.du.Nord.1981.576p.BluRay.FLAC1.0.x264-BV.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified)