The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Synopsis
When The Bridge of San Luis Rey breaks, five travellers are precipitated into the gulf below. Was it chance or the hand of God that brought these five together at that fatal time in that place? Or were they in some way responsible, themselves, for what happened? These questions are raised with uncynical compassion and answered by Wilder with an indirect affirmation of the power of love.
Set in early 18th century Peru at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, this timeless story of delicately interwoven lives traverses worlds as diverse as the theatres, convents, brothels and docks of Lima, Peru to the sea-faring explorations, scientific institutions and courts of Madrid, Spain.
'Soon, we too shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten, there is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love,
the only survival, the only meaning.' (Thornton Wilder, 1927)
Details
- Year
- 2004
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- tbc
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
- Mary McGuckian
- Producer
- Jeff Abberley, Craig Darian, Victor Hadida, Peter James, Howard Kanzanjian, James Simpson
- Co-Producer
- Jeff Abberley, Craig Darian, Victor Hadida, Peter James, Howard Kanzanjian, James Simpson
- Editor
- Sylvie Landra, Kant Pan
- Screenwriter
- Mary McGuckian, Thornton Wilder
- Director of Photography
- Javier Aguirresarobe
- Sound
- Peter Glossop
- Principal Cast
- Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, F Murray Abraham, Harvey Keitel, Gabriel Byrne
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 7th September 2006
