The Bridge (2006)

It’s gripping viewing but you feel like a voyeur of somebody else’s pain. After a while you may feel that you’re watching a particularly scenic snuff film.

This will get flack for being a “snuff” film – but the real tragedy is how suicide is often hidden away. This film brings it out in the open.

This could be the most morally loathsome film ever made.

The filmmakers' methods are questionable, but the power of the resulting documentary and the importance of the issues it raises are not.

despite the shocking, up-close look, we're no closer to a real understanding of the terrible urge to end it all.

This fascinating, sensitive documentary is an extraordinary film that is both thought-provoking and deeply moving, although it contains images that some viewers may find upsetting.

The whole thing invokes the bodies falling from that other architectural icon on 9/11 – but it’s not clear what is achieved beyond disturbance.

Recommended, if sobering viewing.

If harrowing footage of deeply disturbed people contemplating a hideous suicide cross-cut with interviews with grieving loved ones who often blame themselves for failing to prevent the tragedy strike you as art - help yourself.

The results are striking: an emotional and aesthetic whirlpool of horror, fascination, beauty, and resignation that would probably drown lesser movies but that gives The Bridge an eerie power.