The Girl on the Bridge (La fille sur le pont) (1999)

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It's beautifully shot and has an appealingly light-hearted approach to the dialogue and shooting style.

However, the story of two star crossed souls finding what completes them on a suicide bridge never grabbed me. As it went on it seemed they repeated the same mistakes and motifs over and over again. Quirk is fine but I really got annoyed by repeated discussions and quasi-metaphy... read more

It’s night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.