Thanks to the wonderful children’s song taught in schools throughout the world, hundreds of millions of people have, somewhere hidden in their mind, a Pont d’Avignon. This is a very singular bridge where people dance as they like, a bridge intimately linked to childhood. However, its image remains vague. This monument, one of the most famous in the world, is in fact very intriguing: huge fortified walls which could belong to fairy tales, overlooked by an abrupt rock, one of its piers supporting a strange chapel… but most of all, a bridge that stops right in the middle, like a cliff over a river. Questions urgently arise: what happened to the bridge which haunted my youth? Why is there so little left? Where did it lead to? And what did it look like in all its glory?
Screening time: Saturday, May 6, 4:49 pm, The Shedd Recital Hall
Length: 18 min.
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
Director: Henri-Louis Poirier
Producer: Bertrand Abadie
Producer Web site: n/a
Distributor: Py Films
Distributor Web site: www.py-films.fr
Awards/Selections:
International Archaeology Film Festival (Split, Croatia) – (november 2016)
International Festival of Archaeological Film, Bordeaux, France- (october 2016)