In the 1999 French fantasy Girl on the Bridge, a hopelessly unlucky young waif decides to trade a jump into the Seine River for the, only slightly, less dangerous fate of becoming the daring assistant to a professional knife thrower. Once the pair realizes how intertwined their lives are destined to be, the brilliant metaphors for love and sex fly faster and truer than the knives.

Vanessa Paradis is utterly charming as Adèle, the girl who learns that danger can be as erotic as sex itself. Ms Paradis is perhaps better known in America as the longtime girlfriend of Johnny Depp, but here she shines as a star in her own right.

Daniel Arteuil, last seen in the suspense thriller Cache, is perfect as the irresistably cool knife thrower, Gabor.

Constantly surprising, often surreal and ultimately warm and tender, Girl on the Bridge is a one-of-a-kind, to own, enjoy and to share again and again