The Bridge of Arts

Sara is a singer in a baroque quartet. Pascal is a student procrastinating on writing his dissertation by walking around Paris and reading Michelangelo's poetry. Each of them is unhappy and lonely in their own way. The characters could become something to each other, but it's quite possible that they may never even meet.

Eugène Green is a connoisseur of the Baroque who started making films at the age of 53. He doesn't just recreate the atmosphere of the era; it seems as if the director strives to think like a person of that time. All of his films somehow remind us of Baroque theater and don't shy away from their theatricality; on the contrary, they enhance and sharpen it. Green seeks authenticity not in imitation of life or psychological acting but rather in deliberately conventional scenes, as if his characters are locked in little boxes for us to examine more conveniently.