Tales are dramatic; the interviewees poignant, and the images -- often following bodies all the way down to the water -- are startling and discomfiting.
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05/09/07
The Bridge (2006)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:12
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Tactlessly morbid or remarkably sensitive? Deeply disturbing or viscerally fascinating? Critics are divided on Eric Steele’s unique documentary on the Golden Gate Bridge, wonder of the modern world and notorious suicide destination.
Theatrical Release:Oct 27, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $49,313
Synopsis: Shot over an entire year in 2004, THE BRIDGE is a startling documentary about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the people who go there to end their lives. Director Eric Steel and his crew... [More]
Director: Eric Steel
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Top CriticThe Bridge avoids reducing its subjects to types, and if the portraits painted are often recognizable -- the person who talks so much about suicide that those around him fail to take him seriously -- they are not repetitive.
03/08/07
Top CriticBy his use of interviews of friends and family of jumpers, Steel reminds us that no matter how alone some of these people felt, they weren't without people who loved them. It is a tender, powerful work.
02/09/07
Top CriticThough well-meaning, hauntingly scored and artfully photographed, this strange documentary marks the bridge as a mecca for self-inflicted death, while making us helpless observers of such horrific acts.
12/29/06
Top CriticIt may be the first poetic snuff film.
11/01/06
Top CriticIt's disturbing, needless to say, but also affecting in unexpected ways.
10/27/06
Top CriticThe interviews with loved ones keep the tragedies in context and help us process what we see. The true substance of The Bridge lies in their words, rather than the shots of the people they've lost.
10/27/06
Top CriticThe Bridge does not try to milk these tragedies, which are often shot from a great distance and tastefully edited.
10/27/06
Top CriticOne of (author Neale Donald) Walsch's precepts is that you should never make a living doing something you hate. If I'd known that, I might not have felt obliged to sit through every excruciating minute of this sanctimonious infomercial.
10/27/06
Top CriticIt de-romanticizes the idea of suicide by italicizing it in all its bleak, brutal reality, while making palpable the tortured predicament of those left behind.
10/26/06
Top CriticDespite the proficient technique, after a while you may feel you're watching a particularly scenic snuff film.
10/26/06
Top CriticThe Bridge is both a beautiful film and a disturbing one, and the connection between those two characteristics makes it the most disquieting of documentaries.
10/26/06
Top CriticThis eerie and indelible documentary about suicide juxtaposes transcendent beauty with personal tragedy.
10/26/06
Top CriticThis is a shocking film, but in its own way a profoundly humane one.
10/25/06
Top CriticIn his ghoulish documentary, director Eric Steel examines the Golden Gate's dubious honor as the world's most popular suicide destination.
10/24/06
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