My favorite movie is la fille sur le pont (the girl on the bridge). I can’t get tired of seeing it.
It’s a French movie, made on 1999. The director is Patrice Leconte, and the leading actors are Vanessa Paradis and Daniel Auteuil. In the movie they play Adèle, a girl who’s kind of force to start to believe in luck; and Gabor, a knife thrower.
I don’t want to give the impression of this as a typical romantic film, because it is not… there’s a lot of tension, pauses, looks at the eyes, and sometimes there is jealousy too. But they don’t really get too sentimental or affected…
All the scenes are in black and white, but you never feel you miss the color, the photograph is beautiful, and the soundtrack is great.
The film starts with a close up of Adele talking about her horrible luck. The conversation is more like an interrogation, there’s a female voice asking her about the story of her life, and you can see something like a jury behind her. The scene -that hasn’t had any relation to the rest of the film- takes 7.15 minutes
After that opening scene, you start to listen to the music and then you follow the flying camera going to a bridge in Paris. There’s Adèle, who’s planning to jump into the Seine River. But she’s not alone, Gabor comes and offers her to make a deal: she can become his diana. He tells her that if she wants to kill herself, she’ll not lose anything by trying.
Here’s a link of one of my favorites scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np1bn6P747o
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