Lulu On The Bridge
by Paul Auster
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Actor: Don Byron, Harvey Keitel, Kevin Corrigan, Mira Sorvino, Richard EdsonDirector: Paul Auster
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-21
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
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Movie Review: A terrific movie that could have been great
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't want to give away the ending, but this whole movie takes place on the bridge between life and death. I think it may be Auster's best work since the New York Trilogy. It has all the nested levels of reality that those novels had and which sort of got lost in his later books. It also points up an important paradox in Auster's universe of paradoxes: You can accept a world run by chance without being a cynic. This film is all about paradox. There is a blurring or merging of opposites: The magic stone is both a love potion and Pandora's box; Izzy is both a rotten [...] and Sir Galahad; Celia is both a true hearted girl and Lulu; the movie itself is both romantic and existential, etc. In Auster's world--as in the real world--everything contains a little of its opposite, so that in the end no definition holds up.
But this chaotic symmetry is spoiled by the final cut. Celia's dark side is shown in the movie within the movie, a remake of G.W. Pabst's 1928 film Pandora's Box (based on Wedekind's play, as is Berg's opera), and these scenes of the movie being made, with Celia as Lulu, are a prominent part of Auster's script. They were shot and were still in the film during postproduction interviews given by Auster and even the film editor. But between then and the time the movie was released for rental, all those Lulu scenes got cut out! I can easily see how this would have happened in the old Hollywood studio system. Some bottom-line weasle would have considered these scenes a distraction from the rest of the movie and simply whacked 'em out without consulting the director. But in this case Auster and his producer seem to have had complete control over the project, so I can only conclude that Auster himself must have done the cutting, or at least agreed to it. Why, Paul?! If anybody has any info on this, please write to me. This movie is a good as "Smoke"--better in my opinion--but it could have been great without the cuts.
Summary of Lulu On The Bridge
Izzy maurer is a jazz saxophonist whose life is permanently changed when he is hit by a stray bullet. After his recovery izzy stumbles across the body of a stranger and winds up with the murdered mans briefcase. In it is a box that contains a mysterious stone and a telephone number belonging to celia. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/06/2007 Starring: Harvey Keitel Willem Dafoe Run time: 103 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Paul AusterDrama DVD Video
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