| Girl on the Bridge (1999)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Vanessa Paradis |
Adèle
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| Daniel Auteuil |
Gabor
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| Demetre Georgalas |
Takis
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| Isabelle Petit-Jacques |
The Bride
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| Frederic Pfluger |
The Contortionist
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| Plot |
| A woman's long history of bad luck starts to change when she puts her life on the line in this romantic drama. Adèle (Vanessa Paradis) is a 22-year-old woman whose life seems to have been a long series of miscalculations; she's never had much luck with love, life, or career, and is standing on a bridge overlooking the Seine one night, contemplating suicide, when she's approached by a man named Gabor (Daniel Auteuil). Gabor announces he's a knife-thrower who needs a new human target for his act. Would Adèle be interested? Adèle's immediate answer is to jump into the water, but after Gabor fishes her out and gets her to a hospital, she has a change of heart and the pair are soon on their way to Monaco, where Gabor gets a spot at a circus. Adèle and Gabor make a great team; he's good with knives, she's young and beautiful, and suddenly Adèle's luck starts to change. She visits a casino one night and comes home with a fortune, and even when Gabor throws blindfolded, she walks away without so much as a scratch. However, an obvious chemistry is brewing between the two, which leads to a dilemma: Gabor has a strict policy of never getting romantically involved with his partners. Will he make an exception, or is Adèle's new run of luck coming to an end? — Mark Deming |
| Movie Details |
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| Studio |
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Paramount Classics |
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| Country |
 USA
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| Language |
English |
| Running Time |
90 |
| Movie Release Date |
1999 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
67 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
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| Edition Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Release Date |
20/11/2000 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Black & White PAL Subtitled Widescreen |
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