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The Bridge of San Luis Rey( 2004)

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Five lives bound by one fate.

Overview

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.

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      Gabriel Byrne

      Brother Juniper

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      F. Murray Abraham

      Viceroy of Peru

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      Kathy Bates

      The Marquesa

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      Robert De Niro

      Archbishop of Peru

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      Harvey Keitel

      Uncle Pio

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      Pilar López de Ayala

      Camila Villegas (La Perichola)

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      Mark Polish

      Manuel

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      Michael Polish

      Esteban

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      Adriana Domínguez

      Pepita

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      Geraldine Chaplin

      The Abbess

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      Dominique Pinon

      His Excellency's Fop

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      John Lynch

      Captain Alvarado

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      Émilie Dequenne

      Doña Clara

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      Samuel Le Bihan

      Dona Clara's Husband

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      Jim Sheridan

      The King of Spain

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    A review by Wuchak

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    Written by Wuchak on Thu Dec 08 2022
    **_Thematically heavy costume drama (too weighty for the average viewer)_** In 1714, five people fall to their deaths in the Andes when an "indestructible" rope-bridge breaks and Franciscan monk Brother Juniper (Gabriel Byrne) becomes obsessed with the tragedy, collecting personal notes on all the victims and writing a book on his conclusions: Five people, all dying of the same cause at the same instant, cannot be mere coincidence in an understandable human universe. He's put on trial by the Inquisition (which was running Spain and Peru at the time) for humanly trying to second-guess an Act ...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    24000000.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • based on novel or book
    • peru
    • bridge
    • period drama
    • 18th century
    • woman director