Girl on the Bridge, The

Aroview: This glossy slice of modern 'poetic realism' has an attractive visual component but its arch-Romanticism won't be everyone's glass of Chablis.

Out-of-work carny Daniel Autueil tempts the equally luckless Vanessa Paradis back from suicide with an offer of employment as an assistant in his knife-throwing act.
Fanciful script is nicely underscored by a Yin-Yang relationship theme, but is overpowered by thickly-laid metaphors, exotic hallmarks and mournful ballads (incl. Marianne Faithful). The black-and-white photography consciously tributes the work of past-masters Marcel Carne, Truffaut and Fellini, but the choice is more tellingly cosmetic. Also tellingly, the twenty-five year age gap between the two leads is not at all mentioned.

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