A threatened suicide gives way to death-defying thrills and then romance in the French fable Girl On The Bridge. This is an odd, compelling and wonderfully sensual film that reinvents notions of luck in matters of love.

Darkly comic, Girl was directed by the maverick filmmaker Patrice Leconte, of Monsieur Hire, The Hairdresser's Husband and Ridicule fame. His next picture, Widow Of St. Pierre, has just been announced for the Toronto filmfest.
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