LA FILLE SUR LE PONT (The Girl on the Bridge, 1999) ** A self-styled meditation on luck with side emphasis on love, strewn across a backdrop of knife-throwing and associated sexual tensions. Daniel Auteuil's suits are great in black & white, in full colour he would have probably resembled a refugee from a gay bar off Times Square...which would have altered the plot in addition to giving it incidental but not necessarily needed depth. The deviations from rational narrative feel more like side trips than leaps, but they often engage clarity in a coming-back-up-from-downers sort of way. Vanessa Paradis effortlessly conveys the impetus and casual allure of a life of gratuitous sex on demand with strangers, but it's also telling that she misses the boat when the "real thing" comes along, and ends up in Turkey instead. Buncha people contemplating suicide from ten foot high bridges. Nah!
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