La fille sur le pont (1999)
(The Girl on the Bridge)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 92m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
Synopsis:
A knife thrower rescues a potential suicide from a fatal plunge and hires her as his assistant/target. Together they discover that they are blessed with the luck that has always been denied them apart.
Review:
Beginning with a typically beguiling premise, and developing it in flamboyantly gallic fashion (the girl swoons with pleasure as the knives thud home around her, and her assailant trembles with anticipation), Leconte's gleaming variation on the odd couple theme does not quite sustain its inventiveness and wit up to the predictable conclusion but affords sophisticated pleasures along the way.
(The Girl on the Bridge)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 92m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
Synopsis:
A knife thrower rescues a potential suicide from a fatal plunge and hires her as his assistant/target. Together they discover that they are blessed with the luck that has always been denied them apart.
Review:
Beginning with a typically beguiling premise, and developing it in flamboyantly gallic fashion (the girl swoons with pleasure as the knives thud home around her, and her assailant trembles with anticipation), Leconte's gleaming variation on the odd couple theme does not quite sustain its inventiveness and wit up to the predictable conclusion but affords sophisticated pleasures along the way.
(The Girl on the Bridge)
Country: FR
Technical: bw/scope 92m
Director: Patrice Leconte
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis
Synopsis:
A knife thrower rescues a potential suicide from a fatal plunge and hires her as his assistant/target. Together they discover that they are blessed with the luck that has always been denied them apart.
Review:
Beginning with a typically beguiling premise, and developing it in flamboyantly gallic fashion (the girl swoons with pleasure as the knives thud home around her, and her assailant trembles with anticipation), Leconte's gleaming variation on the odd couple theme does not quite sustain its inventiveness and wit up to the predictable conclusion but affords sophisticated pleasures along the way.