Grand passion in the Parisian gutter: the love of a broken-legged acrobat for a half-blind artist, sharing a stone bench on the Pont-Neuf during its closure for restoration. ("Love takes bedrooms," philosophizes a fellow bum, "not windy sidewalks.") The bicentennial fireworks and the frolicking beneath them are something to see, an efflorescence of ecstasy. But the movie overall is overextended -- in ambition as well as in length. With Juliette Binoche (who did her own paintings) and Denis Lavant; written and directed by Leos Carax. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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