Girl on the Bridge |  | Director: Patrice Leconte
Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
Studio: Legend Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 5751
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LF00290
UPC: 844503000293
EAN: 0844503000293
ASIN: B0019UGYAU
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: July 1, 2008
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| • | Daniel Auteuil and sexy Vanessa Paradis charm in this funny and intriguing twist on Boy Meets Girl. A beautiful waif (Paradis) is prepared to leap to her death in the Seine but is rescued from her grim fate by a raffish carnival knife thrower (Auteuil, in a performance that won him a Cesar Award for Best Actor). Lovely, quirky, winsome and erotic, this fairytale vision from director Patrice Lecont |
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Product Description
Studio: Legend Films Inc. Release Date: 07/01/2008 Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 54
 Charmed (for two-thirds of this very good movie) January 6, 2010
The Concise Critic: (New England)
What a wonderful experience. . .until it wasn't.
Listen:
"In this final chapter, we approach style in its broader meaning: style in the sense of what is distinguished and distinguishing. Here we leave solid ground. Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes, slightly rearranged, are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised."
This, of course, is E.B. White from the chapter on style he appended to William Strunk's "Elements of Style", a short necessary book for writers. . .and others.
It is appropriate to quote here because this charming story of this sad, lost girl and this sad, lost man does everything right for so long. . .until it doesn't, until, at sea, its style changes.
I think--just sometimes--I could have had a wonderful editor's touch. It would have allowed me (I think correctly) to end "Kite Runner" in an Afgan alley; it would have allowed me to leave Seymour Glass in the elevator in "A Perfect Day for Banannafish". . .it would have allowed me to stop this great movie at sea.
Until the damaging denouement, a great, touching film.
 VHS technology on DVD October 8, 2009
Eugene Mihaliuk (Morgantown, WV)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very good movie -- too bad that this region 1 DVD (released July 1,
2008) is exactly the same thing as the previously available VHS tape:
white English subtitles (non-removable) are printed over the video
frame (often impossible to read when it is white on white).
The soundtrack is original French.
There are no other options or features on this DVD.
 An amazing movie September 28, 2009
Sergio L. Reis (Brazil)
One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, it was not released on DVD...
Hard to watch April 28, 2009
Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL)
Ignoring the various implications of the interesting plot, one is forced to endure numerous scenes of sharp knives being thrown at writhing young women, always missing by just a hair. Over and over, these scenes play out until, inevitably, one knife goes astray into the leg of one of the women, not the main character. Fortunately, the film is b&w, so the blood is somewhat less nauseating to have to see. Beyond that, if you can stand it, the film is very beautifully shot, while the subject matter concerns love and its many meanings. French, very.
Love it!!! March 3, 2009
L. Oyelowo (Washington, DC)
I first rented this movie via netflix and loved it so much I just knew I had to have the DVD for my collection. A classic
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