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The Lovers on the Bridge
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
1991 · Film · 126 min
Directed by Leos Carax
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
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> From the beginning, shooting a movie on a public bridge [Pont-Neuf] in the centre of Paris was complicated. The production team wanted to block off the bridge for three months, but the application was rejected. Instead, a model was created by the set designer Michel Vandestein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Amants_du_Pont-Neuf
> In the middle of farmland they constructed the Pont Neuf, the familiar facades along the 14th-century quays on the Left Bank, the Samaritaine department store on the Right Bank, and that portion of the Ile de la Cite, in the middle of the Seine, where the bridge crosses the island to set off the Square of the Vert Gallant, the garden at the island's western tip dominated by the equestrian statue of Henri IV.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/06/movies/review-film-lovers-on-the-streets-of-paris-literally.html
More information about the set:
http://lemuseedufake.com/leblog/2015/04/les-amants-du-pont-neuf-le-dernier-decor-du-cinema-francais/
(I recommend this film BTW, for the spectacle of it if nothing else.)