The Girl On The Bridge
In his magical, erotic eighteenth feature, French director Patrice Leconte (RIDICULE, MONSIEUR HIRE) captivates viewers from the first elegant black and white frame. In the prologue, fragile beauty Adele (Vanessa Paradis) recounts her wayward, sadly promiscuous past in a comically matter-of-fact manner. Despite the lighthearted telling, Adele sees her life (all twenty-two years of it) as a tragic run of bad luck, leading her to a bridge on the Seine. She is saved from suicide by the arrival of Gabor (Daniel Auteuil) who jumps in after her. After the rescue, Gabor whisks Adele away to be the new assistant for his knife-throwing act. She blooms under his tutelage, and Gabor reaches new heights of his craft conceding that before Adele, he too, was lost. They happily traverse the Mediterranean, performing for thrilled crowds, and find they share a mystical, telepathic bond that comes in handy in casinos. As their feelings deepen, the knife-act becomes an erotic substitute, fraught with sexual tension (particularly in the beautiful scene beneath a railway bridge set to Marianne Faithful). Will the two realize in time that like the torn half of a dollar bill that Gabor gives Adele, each is useless apart
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"...Shot in sumptuous black and white, replete with dizzy, swooping shots of Paris, Monaco, Athens and Istanbul, GIRL ON THE BRIDGE is like a pocket anthology of your favorite foreign movies..."
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- 11 Mar 2005 at 12:58
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I have wanted to see this film for sometime as I had heard rave reviews. I was not dissapointed one bit.
It's the story of two people who are ...
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There's a fairytale quality about this black-and-white French love story. It occupies a magical space between reality and fantasy: we turn a blind eye to ...
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- 05 Dec 2011 at 01:48
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Much hyped movie with a slightly ridiculous story-line. May appeal to many and i wouldnt put you off due to some stylish scenes and acting but in the end rather...
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- 16 Aug 2011 at 19:40
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A gem; this picaresque tale of the relationship which develops between a suicidal girl and her rescuer, a professional knife-thrower, is witty, touching and ...
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- 26 Apr 2011 at 15:51
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