The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004) on Netflix
Peru, 1714: a bridge the Incas built gives way near Lima under five people. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who sees it fall, sets out to learn why God allowed it.
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Plot summary
At noon on a Friday in July 1714, near Lima, Peru, a bridge the Incas had woven a century before collapses while five people cross it: the Marquess of Montemayor, Doña María; her attendant Pepita; the scribe Esteban; Uncle Pío; and a young child. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar traveling to the bridge, witnesses the collapse. He wants to know why God would permit such a tragedy, so he takes a scientific approach, interviewing people who knew the five victims, and over six years he assembles a large book asking whether lives follow a plan or whether there is no larger scheme.
Cast
- Adriana Domínguezas Pepita
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
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- In 2022, The Bridge of San Luis Rey was recut, remastered and rescored to restore it to the version based on the original script, with 40 minutes of previously unseen footage added; Giant Pictures released the remastered film digitally in North America.
- The film and Thornton Wilder's novel are loosely based on the life of Micaela Villegas (1748-1819), a famous Peruvian entertainer known as La Perricholi, whose life also inspired Prosper Mérimée's novella Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffe La Périchole and Jean Renoir's 1953 film Le Carrosse d'or.
