VIEW FROM PASSY BRIDGE: Taken one night at dusk on the bridge over the Seine at Passy, facing east towards the 7th arrondissement. That evening I was walking to the Maison Radio-France to be interviewed live on a France-Culture radio show. The Passy bridge (it’s actually called the Bir-Hakeim bridge but the originally name has stuck if only for the practical reason that it leads to the Passy district in the 16th arrondissement) has some cinematic history. Most notably, it’s the setting of the opening scene in Last Tango in Paris: Marlon Brando is walking across the bridge toward Passy as the clattering Metro train passes overhead. The bridge is also featured in the cult French film, Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain. And more recently, it’s famous for a scene in the movie, Inception.