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(Un Pont entre deux rives) (France)  Directed by Gérard Depardieu and Frédéric Auburtin, co-produced by Depardieu's production company (DD Productions), TF1 and Le Studio Canal.

Cast:  Carole Bouquet, Gérard Depardieu, Charles Berling, Stanislas Crevillén

Plot:  In the 1960s in Normandy, Georges (Depardieu) is married to Mina (Bouquet), a beautiful and sensible woman.  Mina seeks to escape from her routine life by going to the cinema with Tommy (Crevillén), their fifteen-year-old son. After a screening of West Side Story, Matthias (Berling), a man they are sitting next to, invites them for a drink at a dance hall. At the same time, Georges finds a job at a building site and is compelled to stay away from home the whole week long. The growing passion between Mina and Matthias is as painful for Tommy as for Georges. He finally accepts Mina's departure, as he hopes that this love affair will not last long ...

Trivia:  Carole Bouquet is Depardieu's romantic partner in real life.

US/UK Status:  Had  a limited US theatrical release.  On home video as of Mar 13, 2001 in the US.  No word on a UK video date.
                     
Links:
Imdb listing
Phaedra Cinemas Site (the distributor)
Calendar Live review
FrenchCulture.org review
Haro-online review
Interview at Montreal Film Festival
The New Republic review
Hollywood Reporter review
Film.com review
New York Post review
Film Journal review
Culturevulture.net review
New York Times review

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"It is wonderful to see Gérard Depardieu in such fantastic form, quietly demonstrating, whilst also co-directing the film, why he is one of the world's great actors" -- Frenchculture.org review

"It is Depardieu who really surprises here. He conveys Georges' bewilderment, anger and pain with a thoughtful directness and lack of histrionics that are deeply moving. After so many films-is there a French movie in which he doesn't appear?-this actor still manages to surprise and touch you in ways that our laurel-resting, local heroes like De Niro and Pacino would do well to emulate."  -- Film Journal reviewto