Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 American romantic-mystery drama film written and directed by author Paul Auster and starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Willem Dafoe.

After discovering a mysterious stone, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful aspiring actress, but their happiness is cut short by a series of strange, dreamlike events.

Izzy survives the seven-hour operation, but loses his left lung, ending his music career.

A young aspiring actress named Celia Burns (Mira Sorvino) walks into the Chez Pierre restaurant in New York City where she works as a waitress.

His former girlfriend Hannah (Gina Gershon) invites him to a dinner attended by a retired famous actress, Catherine Moore (Vanessa Redgrave), who is now a successful film director, and her film producer friend, Philip Kleinman (Mandy Patinkin).

Catherine is looking for a young actress to play the part of "Lula" in her upcoming film version of Pandora's Box.

That night, as he lay awake in bed, the stone emits a strange blue light and elevates above the nightstand.

The next morning he calls the number written on a napkin he found in the bag and Celia picks up the phone just as she's listening to Izzy's CD.

When he arrives he demands to know what she knows about the dead man, Stanley Mar (Greg Johnson), and the strange rock.

Shortly after she leaves, Izzy is attacked by men in his apartment demanding to know why he killed Stanley Mar.

Distressed, Lulu takes the rock and walks to Ha'penny Bridge, where she drops the stone into the dark river below.

On the way to the hospital, his heart stops and Izzy Maurer dies, just as the ambulance passes a young aspiring actress named Celia Burns.

He had previously written the script for The Music of Chance, and had collaborated with director Wayne Wang on Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995).

[8] Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote, "The film is original and intermittently touching, but ultimately frustrating due to the meandering nature of the riddle-like script and Auster’s lethargic direction.