The Insomniac on the Bridge

Directed by Raúl Ruiz

With Michael Lonsdale, Olimpia Carlisi, Jean Badin, Jean-Bernard Guillard and Melvil Poupaud

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.