L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma
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L'éveillé du pont de l'Alma
director:
Raúl Ruiz
playwright:
Raúl Ruiz
actor:
Michael Lonsdale
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Melvil Poupaud
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Olimpia Carlisi
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Jean Badin
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Jean-Bernard Guillard
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language:
French
length: 1h 13m
release date: 1985-10-02
IMDb: tt0090386
L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma
overview
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.