marymccluer, 	actually, the film that you described (an artist slowly going blind who becomes involved with a homeless man) is Leos Carax's "Lovers on the Bridge".  Patrice Leconte's "Girl on the Bridge" is about a professional knife-thrower who solicits potential suicide jumpers from buildings and bridges to become his assistants.

I didn't see the film as a dream or fantasy sequence of a potential suicide, but rather, as an obsessive relationship between two people who can only consummate their love through risk-taking and danger.  I thought that the surreal, carnival atmosphere of the film resulted more from their abberant obsession, rather than the limitless possibilities of a dream.

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