The most expensive French film ever made nearly destroyed everyone involved. This is the chaos.
A documentary on the set of the ultra eventful Leos Carax film "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf", which spans three years of filming and knows an accumulation of disasters, increasing an initial budget of 32 million francs to more than 120 million francs.
Production
Watching a budget quadruple in real-time is genuinely staggering.
Direction
Carax's uncompromising vision vs. financial reality — brutal.
Director
Olivier Guiton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The flooded Seine that destroyed the set was a once-in-a-century event — Carax waited a full year to rebuild rather than compromise.
This disaster permanently changed how French cinema finances risky projects; Carax wouldn't direct again for nearly a decade.
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