6/10
THE GIRL ON THE BRIDGE (1999). Vanessa Paradis & Daniel Auteil flirt, fail to commit suicide & throw knives at each other in this achingly stylish, achingly stylised romantic fantasy from director Patrice Leconte. Glossy, trashy, shallow & utterly ravishing, curmudgeons, he-men & hip-sophisticates will hate it on sight, & they've got several points to score, with its dodgy sexual politics, knowing ridiculousness, its reliance on the beauty of its surfaces, but I loved it to bits.
