The Insomniac on the Bridge
MovieTitle | L'Éveillé du pont de l'Alma |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Oct 2, 1985 |
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Director | Raúl Ruiz |
Production country | France |
Run time | 73 min. |
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.