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Girl on the Bridge [1999] | |
Girl_on_the_Bridge starring: Vanessa Paradis, Daniel Auteuil, Frédéric Pfluger, Demetre Georgalas, Catherine Lascault directed by: Patrice Leconte List Price: £19.99 Price: £4.98 You Save: £15.01 (75%)Used Price: £4.00 Third Party New Price: £4.96 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 0506000283080 Format: Black & White, PAL, Widescreen Label: Pathe Distribution Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Pathe Distribution Region Code: 2 Release Date: November 20, 2000 Running Time: 88 minutes Sales Rank: 3512 Studio: Pathe Distribution Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Related Items:
Pathe Distribution See more information on Girl on the Bridge [1999] at Amazon UK or at Amazon.com Average Rating:  Rating:  - Understated sexinessCertainly enjoyable enough for its low-key humour, understated sexiness and satisfying ending. But this is primarily for anyone who adores both Daniel Auteuil and Vanessa Paradis, as the camera is all over them like a fetishist, especially in the knife-throwing scenes. The whole opening sequence while the girl is being questioned at length about her unlucky life, while watched by shadowy figures in the background, remains unexplained and enigmatic, and is really about the girl's face - Paradis, at times uncannily like a young Meg Ryan. It's in black and white - a little pretentious...self-indulgent? Very little happens plot wise - knife-thrower stops girl throwing herself off bridge and she becomes his assistant and they have travelling adventures. But recommended, if you can accept the slow pace. Rating: - A fine bit of Patrice Leconte fluff revolving around luck, sex and flying cutleryShe: Suicidal, about to jump off a bridge. He: A carnival knife thrower. Would you like to be my target, he asks. Sounds like a match made in heaven. Patrice Leconte's La Fille sur le Ponte may be a bit of quirky romantic fluff, but its great fluff. It's a diverting entertainment without much purchase, thank goodness, for the admiration of deeper meanings with which some Anglo cinephiles deaden the experience of good French movies. It's the story of two people who probably could only exist in the movies. Adele (Vanessa Paradis) is 21, endlessly compliant and endlessly unlucky in love (and with just about everything else, too.) She's a charming gamin, especially if you're the guy trying to pick her up. "Boys attract me," she says, "like beautiful clothes. I always want to try them on." At last she figures out that, for her, while sex is a friendly thing, it never seems to last or to work into anything else. "Funny, isn't it, how people can seem madly in love when they're not. It must be easy to fake." So there she is one evening about to jump off a bridge. Gabor (Daniel Auteuil), an older man, tries to talk her out of jumping. He'd like her to be his target. With her figure and his skill, they'll be a hit...although, he points out, "past the age of 40 knife throwing becomes erratic." She decides to jump anyway. He rescues her and before long they are an act. Adele continues to offer her innocently explicit friendship to those she encounters. She discovers ... Read More Rating:  - Simply gorgeousSpoilers..... I love this movie. I've always liked anything that Auteuil does so was bound to watch this and what a feast it is. My one regret is the movie is b/w although you hardly notice once you are into it because it's so charming a story. I was particularly struck by the use of the knife-throwing act to become an erotic experience - what a clever theme. I do not object to the ending that some call sugary. I think it is absolutely the right ending. We don't have to have all fantasy movies ending as tragedies just to please people who don't like happy endings. There are far too many movies that twist the story to ensure the ending is as miserable as possible which has been "fashionable" for some time and is becoming so tedious. The French are as much guilty of this as any others, seeming to all too often delight in dismal endings. So it was pleasing to discover that they did manage to find a happy ending for this delightful fantasy. After all, it is a fantasy, not meant to be real life, so we don't have to have everyone ending up miserable as sin or proudly wallowing in some idea that a movie is always better if everything ends in pain, loss and sorrow. Accolades to the writer and director for ensuring this movie at least could leave us feeling fulfilled and happy instead of dismally accepting life can't ever really be happy - which is completely illogical. Fashion isn't everything. Rating: - bit of quality cinemaa great film, easy to watch with a good story content. vanessa paradis hmmmm oh la la, its worth watching just to see her smoulder on screen, sometimes you want it to be in colour but on the whole b&w works well, and well worth the money Rating:  - A French chick flickUnrealistic without being fantasy. This is entertaining with some beautiful shots (mainly paradis) but don't expect a great script, commanding performances or twisting plots. OK for 90 minutes of blank entertainment but then, why bother with this when Hollywood does tht so much better. Girl_on_the_BridgeGirl on the Bridge [1999] | |
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