Lulu on the Bridge

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Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 romantic mystery drama film directed by author Paul Auster. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. A saxophone player (Harvey Keitel) is shot and loses a lung, forcing him to abandon his musical career. He begins an obsessive romance with a young actress (Mira Sorvino), which somehow involves a blue stone with magical properties.
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  • Aug 14, 1998

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  • 1 h 43 min

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Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction, such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989) and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Jewish middle class parents of Polish descent...

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  • Is she real? ..or did he make her up?

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