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
F. Murray Abraham
Viceroy of Peru
Kathy Bates
The Marquesa
Robert De Niro
Archbishop of Peru
Harvey Keitel
Uncle Pio
Pilar López de Ayala
Camila Villegas (La Perichola)
Mark Polish
Manuel
Michael Polish
Esteban
Adriana Domínguez
Pepita
Geraldine Chaplin
The Abbess
Dominique Pinon
His Excellency's Fop
John Lynch
Captain Alvarado
Émilie Dequenne
Doña Clara
Samuel Le Bihan
Dona Clara's Husband
Jim Sheridan
The King of Spain

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A review by Wuchak

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 ...