What did the biggest set and The Lovers on the Bridge hit in French film history bring to director Léos Carax?

"The Lovers on the Bridge" synopsis

Paris is bustling with people celebrating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. A beautiful and heartbreaking love story depicting the vivid love between Alex, a lonely street performer who lives on the Pont Neuf Bridge over the Seine, and Michel, an art student who is on the verge of going blind due to an eye disease.

Index

• Leading the mini theater boom
• nightmare project
• Carax and Escoffier
• The two after “Pont Neuf”

Leading the mini theater boom

The late 1980s, before the advent of multiplex cinemas. Many mini-theaters have sprung up mainly in Tokyo, with the motto of ``movie theaters nurturing directors,'' steadily accumulating ratings and numbers. After a lot of trial and error to respect the diversity of writers, one movie finally became a record-breaking hit. The French film ``The Lovers on the Bridge'' (1991) was screened for 27 weeks at Cinemarise in Shibuya.

The director's name is Leos Carax. He made his directorial debut with `` Boy Meets Girl '' (1984). The director, who was 23 years old at the time, received rave reviews from critics for his fantastical black-and-white portraits of the streets of Paris and the lives of young people.His follow-up, `` Dirty Blood '' (1986), made a complete change in his bold use of primary colors and darkness. , which depicted a near-future Paris affected by AIDS in an artificial worldview, established its popularity and reputation.

"The Lovers on the Bridge" (C)1991 STUDIOCANAL-France 2 Cine'ma

This work, which was announced after that, met the rising expectations and became a huge hit in its home country of France, attracting 140,000 people in two weeks. In addition to the aftermath, there was also the efforts of the distribution company who spent several years making the Carax name known, leading to it becoming a huge hit in Japan.

Its success in its home country was due in part to the uniqueness of its content, but there were also several other reasons. One is that there were many fans who were looking forward to his next work due to Carax's excellent writing skills. Next up is the news that Juliette Binoche, who was also the director's girlfriend at the time and will be starring in " The Unbearable Lightness of Being " (1988), has become a world-renowned actor. Another reason was that due to repeated troubles, the production took three years and the filming was interrupted many times, making it a topic of conversation in the French media and becoming something of a gossip.

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