The Bridge
Be afraid of what lies beneath...
Be afraid of what lies beneath...
Documentary
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2006
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The Bridge is a controversial documentary that shows people jumping to their death from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco - the world's most popular suicide destination. Interviews with the victims' loved ones describe their lives and mental health.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
27 Oct 2006
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$25,000
Revenue:
$179,780
Awards:
2 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Tales are dramatic; the interviewees poignant, and the images -- often following bodies all the way down to the water -- are startling and discomfiting.
– Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
9 May 2007
fresh:
The 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.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
8 Mar 2007
fresh:
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.
– Ben Walters,
Time Out,
14 Feb 2007
rotten:
Aspires to humanize the people who kill themselves at the Golden Gate Bridge, but ends up mostly reducing its subjects to their flamboyant and very public deaths.
– Nathan Rabin,
AV Club,
10 Feb 2007
fresh:
By 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.
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
9 Feb 2007