The Lovers On The Bridge

Chances are you've never seen a film quite like Léos Carax's extravagant folly. A labor of love for star Juliette Binoche and her then-boyfriend Carax, this fascinating failure was years in the making, went wildly overbudget and was a box office disaster in France. A bedraggled Binoche plays Michele, an artist who's losing her sight. Michele falls in love with scruffy, homeless, alcoholic fire-eater Alex (Denis Lavant), who's temporarily set up camp on Paris's oldest bridge, the Pont-Neuf, while it's being renovated for the French Bicentennial. The exquisite Binoche is forced to fall love with ratboy — love really is blind. Michele and Alex's lovers' i...