Before sunrise for insane people
Der obdachlose Alex lebt auf der ältesten Brücke von Paris, dem Pont-Neuf, und hält sich als Feuerschlucker über Wasser. Dort trifft er eines Tages auf die junge Künstlerin Michèle, die wegen einer Augenerkrankung nicht mehr malen kann und sich völlig aufgegeben hat. Auf der Brücke können beide vor der rauen Realität flüchten, die scheinbar nichts als Leid für sie bereithält. Ihr gemeinsames Schicksal bringt sie einander näher und es entwickelt sich eine leidenschaftliche Beziehung zwischen ihnen.
The Lovers on the Bridge läuft in 1 Kino in Berlin - nächste Vorstellung Sonntag, 1. November um 12:00 im Cinema Paris.
Nächste Vorstellungen: Sonntag, 1. November.
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Before sunrise for insane people
#Binoche-athon'If you love somebody, tell him tomorrow: "The sky is white." If it's me, I'll answer: "But the clouds are black."The perfect love is the one studded with imperfections.Love is not ideal. There's no such thing as a match made in heaven, nor love at first sight. Instead, it is a bond enmeshed in conflicts and misunderstandings; a constant state of volatile disequilibrium.Director Leos Carax doesn't overromanticize the burgeoning affection between two talented artists swept onto the street by life. He paints their tattered bond against the naturalistic backdrop of Paris and constructs a faux dreamscape set in the 'city of romance' that punches you in the stomach whenever its glitter falls away to reveal painful reality: two down-and-outs on a ruined, desolate bridge trying to hold onto the rail and survive.The Lovers on the Bridge made me think about the slight but meaningful difference between the phrases 'pureness' and 'purity' when considered in relation with love. When we say 'pure love', we might imagine an immoblie, permanently true quality of pureness. But love is not static. It is constantly transformed, shaped by its two corresponding puzzle pieces. It is a perpetually shifting state of purity that is never linear, its course never predictable; a state torn by wild fluctuations and drawn-out distances, frayed at oh-so many places, frayed, but never broken.Juliette Binoche's and Denis Lavant's incisively raw portrayals made me think about both parties' relation to the concept of love and the realness of the other person in front of them. Do we really love the other or are we comforted by the idea that someone is attached to us? Are we as attached to them as they are to us or do we delude ourselves that we are in love with them and not with the idealized concept of being loved by another? Would we be able to let them go if it meant they would live a happy life afterwards - without us? What does it say about us if the answer is 'no'? How can we find all the answers?The Lovers on the Bridge made me think about all this, but first and foremost, it helped me realize something else: it doesn't matter. There are things in life that cannot be approached from a rational point of view, things where the deepest analysis won't bring you closer to the truth. What truth, anyway? Sometimes it feels as if there were more lies and ambiguities than truths in life. Often the disharmony is the thing that brings us the wished-for harmony. This harmony is nothing but an idealistic concept itself; and that's exactly what makes it everything. If things in life were naturally balanced and unequivocally straightforward, love would never stay alive.After all, the perfect love is love born of imperfections to rise above perfection - and to stay there.
The ‘happy ending’ to this film left a very bad taste in my mouth. Apparently Carax originally intended that Alex drown Michele in the Seine; he altered the ending to appease Binoche, his lover at the time. The original finale would have possibly been more authentic, considering the toxic nature of the characters’ relationship and Alex’s manipulative and abusive behaviour. Some of the set pieces in the film are spectacular, but how anybody can consider The Lovers on the Bridge ‘romantic’ is beyond me.
Vor dem Hintergrund der ältesten Brücke von Paris während ihrer Sperrung folgt der Film einer turbulenten Romanze zwischen zwei mittellosen jungen Menschen, die auf der Straße ums Überleben kämpfen.
Regie führte Leos Carax im Jahr 1991, bekannt für seinen ausgeprägten visuellen Stil und seine poetische Herangehensweise an das französische Kino.
Der Film erhielt breite kritische Anerkennung und Auszeichnungen auf europäischen Filmfestivals, was seinen Status als Hauptwerk des Kinos der 1990er Jahre festigte.
