The Insomniac on the Bridge

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.

• Raúl RuizDirector
• Raúl RuizScreenplay

• Michael LonsdaleAntonie
• Olimpia CarlisiCast
• Jean BadinCast
• Jean-Bernard GuillardCast
• Melvil PoupaudCast
• Franck OgerCast
• Kim MasseeCast