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Article: Bridging film styles; France's Leconte is a throwback to Hollywood's golden-era directors: successful and versatile.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- August 19, 2000
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French filmmaker Patrice Leconte is in such perpetual motion, his watch has two dials for different time zones. How appropriate for a man interviewed in an airport when he arrived last month from his Paris home to open the Boston French Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts.
"Girl on the Bridge," the popular filmmaker's latest romance, which opened yesterday, is also a movie on the move - from Paris to Athens, Monaco and Istanbul. It stars the glamorous gamine Vanessa Paradis (also known as Mrs. Johnny Depp) as a suicidal Parisian who is rescued by a knife-thrower.
In an era when foreign language films struggle to reach the audience siphoned off by ...