Un pont entre deux rives (1999)

Directors:

Frédéric Auburtin
Gérard Depardieu

Writers:

François Dupeyron (writer)
Alain Leblanc (novel)

Release Date:

7 April 1999 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited engineer.

Plot Keywords:

1960s | Normandy | New Partner | Separation | Adultery

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Carole Bouquet	...	Mina
Gérard Depardieu	...	Georges
Charles Berling	...	Matthias
Stanislas Crevillén	...	Tommy
Dominique Reymond	...	Claire Daboval
Mélanie Laurent	...	Lisbeth
Michelle Goddet	...	Babet
Christiane Cohendy	...	Gaby
Agathe Dronne	...	La secrétaire du chantier
Gérard Dauzat	...	Monsieur Daboval
Pierre Louis-Calixte	...	Un collegue du chantier
Jean-Luc Mimo	...	Le joueur de cartes
Emilio Corea	...	L'orchestre 'Splendid'
Manuela Caino	...	L'orchestre 'Splendid'
Joël Coquet	...	L'orchestre 'Splendid'

Also Known As:

A Bridge Between Two Shores (Australia) (cable TV title)
The Bridge (International: English title)
Bron över Seine (Sweden) [sv]
Die Brücke von Ambreville (Germany) [de]
Ha-Gesher (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
Silta (Finland) [fi]

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:Btl

Company:

DD Productions

Movie Connections:

Features West Side Story (1961)

Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen.

I had the misfortune of being on a 7 and a half hour flight with this movie as one of my only forms of entertainment. I have seen and liked Gerard Depardieu in the past, so this is not an anti-French or anti-foreign film bias, just to get that out of the way. The plots was horribly weak, and gave no explanations for the events that took place or why the characters did what they did. The characters themselves were as shallow as a puddle in the Sahara. The main character has an affair for no other apparent reason than the fact that the man in the movie theater next to her cried. She fights with her son over the affair, they are in the heat of the argument, and she says "I just want you to be happy", and just like that the argument is over and everything's fine between them again. Perhaps things get lost in translation, as it was dubbed, but it would have to be just about the entire script that was lost in translation. The ending is a giant non-sequiter, and if possible, even more of a disappointment than the rest of the film. I was better entertained by the airline's "external temperature update" screen than by this film.