I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

This is the Leos Carax film that truly resonated with me. A homeless love story. Half-blind, half- dumb and half-crazy, these two characters are really memorable. This isn't a dialogue heavy film. Scenes go by like little vignettes, capturing the everyday lives of the Parisian homeless. They live, and love by the bridge. The Bastille day celebration scene completely floored me.

After Leos Carax's 1986 film Mauvais Sang (come on Miramax release it!) Juliette Binoche begged her then lover and director to never film her as a Madonna again, and so the seeds for Les Amants du Pont Neuf were sown. Mauvais Sang features a luminous and fetishist Juliette Binoche as a mask like presence, with no physicality. This was carried thorough to the wonderful The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but Carax exploded the image in his film. The story is simple, two down and outs meet fall in love, yet despite the harsh realities of life, and love, on the streets they live out an exciting and romantic (in all the senses of the word) existence. This movie is relevant for its amazing visual and tour de force performances. Binoche is simply standout, she seems to live the role, something she later admitted deeply disturbed her. The film is fabulously directed from the grainy opening sequence to the amazing fireworks scene and the exhilarating conclusion. The film is littered with cinematic allusions from Truffaut Les Quatre cents Coups, to L'Atlante. In terms of context the film is amazing because it juxtaposes harsh realities, the opening sequence and fairytale like fantasy. We are led to question what is actually real, from Binoche apparently committing murder to the street littered with gigantic litter. In the end Les Amants du Pont Neuf is a film which needs multiple viewing and some explaining or knowledge of French New Wave cinema to be wholly comprehended, yet it is certainly accessible for the majority of casual cinema goers! The film, as I always predicted, is only now beginning to get the recognition it truly deserves. Binoche has avoided this type of movie since, although Michael Hanekes wonderful Code Unknown, though on a smaller and more subjued canvas, has many similarities. Roll on the US release of that one too. And Miramax, its about time you began releasing this type of movie on DVD, you're beginning to lag behind the other companies such as Fox Lorber and Criterion!

The third feature film by French screenwriter, film critic and director Leos Carax which underwent a complicated production process and took three years to complete, is an archetypal love-story set at a bridge undergoing reparation at Pont-Neuf in Paris, where painter Michèle who has recently left her boyfriend and fire-swallower Alex who is addicted to tranquilizing pills and alcohol coincidentally meet and form a relationship.This unusual romance about two opposite vagabonds crashing into one and other during the days leading up to the Bicentennial celebrations in France 1989, is noticeable for it's varied use of music, fine cinematography, fast editing, good pace and diverse filming. However, much of this films greatness comes from the terrific performances by Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche, whose magnetic presence turns this unorthodox love-story into a gripping character drama. The scenes they share stand out as the highlights of this film and they were passionately filmed and written by Leos Carax, who had to overcome severe financial difficulties in order to get the film made.

The final film of the Leos Carax trilogy, following Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang. Here is what the art of film making is all about. The story of the doomed lovers who make their home on the Pont Neuf bridge, and who manage to find some sort of escape from their dark realities in each others company, is unforgettable. Denis Lavant, who appears in all three of the Carax trilogy, is great in his portrayal of Alex, the homeless street performer who falls hopelessly in love with a woman, who appears out of nowhere, to search for a place to sleep, and to hide from her own cruel reality. A painter, losing her vision, but still sketching all that she sees at a frenzied pace, as she knows that she soon will be no longer able to see. The film is so over-the-top romantic, as only French films can be. I had to write something here as a reaction to the bad reviews some gave this wonderful film. It actually saddens me that some people just can't see the magic here, and choose instead to take the film apart by challenging "the logic" of certain scenes and parts of the storyline. Searching for logic and plot holes in a film like this is so utterly ridiculous. Personally I don't go for romantic films, as they usually seem so contrived and phony. But "Amants du Pont-neuf" is such a strong film, and so utterly unique. This is an absolute classic of French cinema, and anyone who has a true appreciation and love for film should not miss this one. 10/10