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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Legend Films
Salesrank: 20325
Released: July 1, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 Leconte (Monsieur Hire) is a romance so captivating, you won't want it to end!
Girl on the Bridge Reviews:
VHS technology on DVD 
2009-10-08 - 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 
2009-09-28 - One of the best movies I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, it was not released on DVD...
Hard to watch
2009-04-28 - 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!!!
2009-03-03 - 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
Another Stylish Film From Patrice Leconte 
2009-02-12 - Here's another very, very different movie. The dialog is quite different and so is the fact that it's a modern movie filmed in black-and-white. It is part romance, comedy and drama.
The camera-work is excellent, but that's no surprise considering Patrice Leconte is the director. He's my favorite European director because his films are visual feasts. His facial closeups and different camera angles are fascinating.
Vanessa Paradis is captivating as the female lead character "Adele." She's unusual in that she has a very pretty face but horrible teeth! It's tough not to focus on both the face and teeth at the same time. The dialog between her and "Gabor" (Daniel Auteuil) is different, at least for me as an American. I think the French have a totally different sense of humor....and are superstitious, big-time.
I wish the tape had been dubbed, so I could have concentrated more on the great visuals instead of having to read the subtitles. However, at least a DVD was finally released in Region I in 2008.
