Lovers will undoubtedly turn off as many viewers as it seduces -- but this long-unreleased masterpiece, shot between 1989 and 1991, will leave true cinephiles nothing short of delirious.

| May 27, 2022

Think of it as cinema living rough, scruffy patches of tedium broken by bursts of lunatic freedom.

| Jan 3, 2018

... a lush cinematic painting of love, passion, and madness expressed in a romantic surrealist style and images charges with color and magic.

| Mar 30, 2017

..there is no denying the utter romanticism of the film.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 7, 2013

Truly extraordinary filmmaking from a unique cinematic voice.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 17, 2013

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

There are many moments of humor and wisdom in the unconventional courtship, not to mention genuine, almost painful emotion.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 11, 2007

The third panel in Carax's trilogy (Boy Meets Girl, Bad Blood) is a thematically and visually exhilarating tale of mad love (amour fou), a genre for which the French have a special affinity.

| Original Score: A | Jul 14, 2005

... like the work of a flamboyant art student who thinks that he can illustrate a profound love story by firing cannonballs of paint at a canvas.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 6, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2002

The Lovers on the Bridge is one of the most splendidly reckless films ever made -- the film that might have torn through the mind of Godard's Pierrot le Fou, after love made him paint his face blue and tie sticks of dynamite to his hair.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 70/100 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 1, 2000

A film for the ages.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

What destroys the film is the way it can't possibly come close to justifying its characters' choices, or its own.

| Original Score: D- | Jan 1, 2000

A film both glorious and goofy, inspiring affection and exasperation in nearly equal measure.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Leos Carax's inspiration for this film was Jean Vigo's masterpiece "L'Atalante" (1934).

| Original Score: A- | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B | Jul 2, 1999