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DiCaprio crosses a big-budget bridge in Paris with Ellen Page
Bon vivant Leonardo DiCaprio and talented/quirky Ellen Page have been hanging around Paris these days.
Their point of interest?
The most iconic of all the Seine's bridges: The Pont de Bir-Hakeim.
Immortalized on film in such movie classics as Steven Speilberg's Munich and Marlon Brando's Last Tango in Paris, DiCaprio and Page will probably do even more for the much-photographed viaduct bridge -- and Paris -- when his upcoming Inception, a sci-fi-style thriller co-starring Marion Cotillard and Cillion Murphy, comes to the big screen.
The arched Pont de Bir Hakeim, once called the pont de Passy, is the connector to Paris's 15th and 16th arrondissements. This steel wonder, constructed in the early 19th-century and renamed for the Free French forces that fought against the Nazi Afrika Korps in '42, takes you over the ile des Cugnes.
Be sure to experience the bridge in person when you visit Paris (the center of the arch memorializes French industrialists Jules-Feliz Coutan and Jean Antoine Injalbert through high-relief statues) and be sure to catch DiCaprio's film -- directed by Christopher Nolan of Dark Knight fame -- when the big box office contender debuts, reportedly next July.
Photo above: Paris's most recognizable bridge: The Pont de Bir-Hakeim
Middle photo: Inception cast
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Comments
Great! I wonder if DiCaprio read the great new thriller set in Paris called PARIS CITY OF NIGHT? Talk about the perfect movie script!! DiCaprio would be a little too young to play the novel's hero, Jay Anthony Grant, alias JAG, a super-cool dealer in vintage photography and daguerreotypes who gets caught up in a mess involving the CIA... His father was an agent. Chase scenes all over the city, mean spooks, real dialogue and characters. I loved it. Douglas Charles
Wow, was wondering if anyone else around had also read this incredible thriller and had also imagined it cinematically. It's a natural! It has so much more going for it than even all the Bourne movies and they're not bad, but this has PARIS, real suspense, serious bad guys and a CIA plot that has more twists and turns than, well, Paris. You have to read it to see what I mean.
Lola Burns, Seattle
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