She: Suicidal, about to jump off a bridge. He: A carnival knife thrower. Would you like to be my target, he asks. Sounds like a match made in heaven. Patrice Leconte's La Fille sur le Ponte (The Girl on the Bridge) may be a bit of quirky romantic fluff, but it's great fluff. It's a diverting entertainment without much purchase, thank goodness, for the admiration of deeper meanings with which some cinephiles deaden the experience of good French movies. … more