This French movie is all about the perfect partner and the good luck associated with it. A knife-thrower artist and a young girl meet one ill-fated night on a bridge when they re about to commit suicide by jumping into the icy cold river. In fact, they do jump; but let's skip that part and continue with what happened after that.

Having both received only bad experiences their whole lives, they find a sense of luck in each other. The man employs the girl in his stunt act and together they astonish audiences all over with their electric performance.

Slowly the intensity between the two increases and this is strikingly climaxed in their orgasmic knife-throwing sessions. Unfortunately, luck runs out the minute the girl decides to leave him for someone she believes is her futuristic perfect match. Both of them fall back into the miserable groove of their haunting pasts. Knowing now they should've never parted, they're both left wandering the world seeking the other's thoughts.

Unfortunately, GIRL ON THE BRIDGE climaxes way to early and makes the ending's impact spineless and sloppy. This itself is quite surprising for a French movie, seeing that they rarely give into their emotional side to supply the viewer with a happy ending.

GIRL ON THE BRIDGE will go onto the art circuit in South Africa, but I guess if this movie had been made in English, it would have been written off as just another average romantic comedy with some groovy photography. The production aims very hard to present an above standard movie, but the script renders this just one more delightful voyage of two characters destinies.

-- Jean-Pierre Pellissier