THE INSOMNIAC ON THE BRIDGE
6.0
1985
73 min.
fr
Original Title
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.