"A wonderful new feature. An enchanted love story."
Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN TIMES

"Perilously close to perfection! Great entertainment. Fearlessly original, wildly funny and subversively erotic. One of the Telluride Film Festival's flat-out triumphs. A fearlessly original, wildly funny fairy tale. Absurdist in tone and subversively erotic ? each fling of the knife carries a sexual charge ? it sustains a pace usually reserved for mindless action thrillers, yet appeals to the mind with a cinematic wit that is sharpened by stunning black-and-white photography and brilliant editing. A sensation!"
Joe Morgenstern, WALL STREET JOURNAL

"One of my big favorites from the Telluride Film Festival. Patrice Leconte updates the French New Wave brilliantly with his new film The Girl on the Bridge."
David Poland - Guest Critic, ROGER EBERT AT THE MOVIES

"Whimsical, sexy, and smarter than your average romantic fare."
Deanna Kizis, ELLE MAGAZINE

"Three and a half (out of four) stars! Stunning. Original. Vanessa Paradis has the aura of film legends: Jeanne Moreau's eyes, Marilyn Monroe's voice and Jean Seberg's boyish bob. Vanessa Paradis takes on the allure of a mythical star. Erotically charged. Exotic?powerful. Alluring and funny."
Genevieve Royer, MONTREAL GAZETTE

"Erotic. French director Patrice Leconte has emerged as one of the leading lights of French cinema. In the energetic and irrepressible Girl on the Bridge, Patrice Leconte works with brilliant and ubiquitous French actor Daniel Auteuil and actress Vanessa Paradis. Patrice Leconte makes a stylish, passionate attempt to reinvent a genre: romantic comedy."
Robert Denerstein, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

"A wonderfully sensual romance."
-Bruce Kirkland, TORONTO SUN

"This unexpectedly intense black-and-white French romance about faith and our ability to save one another was the hit of the Telluride Film Festival."
Warren Epstein, COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE

"Hits the bull's-eye. An unconventional love story that toys with the conventions of movie romance while careening ahead with the suspense and verve of an action thriller. A charming comedy. The sexual subtext of the knife-throwing sequences is right up there with the hormone-charged gluttony in Tom Jones. Big, bold musical contributions range from Benny Goodman to Marianne Faithfull, and from Brenda Lee's 'I'm Sorry' to the infectious North African rhythms that gave The Hairdressers Husband much of its haunting edge."
Lisa Nesselson, VARIETY

"Girl on the Bridge may earn Vanessa Paradis a place in that shapely line of French actresses - Signoret, Bardot, Deneuve -who have encouraged Americans to feel oh-so-very Continental about sex."
Joseph Hooper, MEN'S JOURNAL