5 Best Brigitte Bardot Films
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- DirectorRoger VadimStarsBrigitte BardotCurd JürgensJean-Louis TrintignantIn sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.The film that launched Bardot as a major international star and Saint-Tropez as the new cool holiday destination. Bardot as Juliette is the ultimate ‘good-bad girl’, the object of desire of all the men around her and an iconoclastic pre-feminist icon. The film created a scandal at the time, especially in America where it was dubbed ‘God Created Woman but the Devil created Brigitte Bardot!’
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsBrigitte BardotJack PalanceMichel PiccoliA French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.Shot in glorious Technicolor in Rome and Capri, Le Mépris is a self-reflexive commentary on ‘the end of cinema’ as well as on the phenomenon of stardom. But it is, primarily, the meeting of New Wave ‘super-auteur’ Jean-Luc Godard and Bardot, the mass-media celebrity. Although their collaboration on set was less than idyllic, the result on screen is arguably both his and her best film.
- DirectorMichel BoisrondStarsCharles BoyerHenri VidalBrigitte BardotSet against the picturesque springtime in Paris, the President of France's daughter marries a buttoned down cabinet official, but after her new husband starts stepping out behind her back, the young bride takes off for the Riviera.A highly successful popular comedy in which Bardot perfected her comic-erotic persona (a critic called it “a daring documentary on the natural beauties of Brigitte Bardot”) but also demonstrated how much she had become the emblem of French modernity – a young woman whose looks, clothes and behaviour became massively imitated.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsJean GabinBrigitte BardotEdwige FeuillèreMarried French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.Bardot’s first taste of serious melodrama, in which she is paired with the classic star Jean Gabin. He is a rich lawyer who falls for Bardot’s young delinquent when she comes for his help but has no money to pay him. Typical of the ‘quality’ dramas of the period, this is a milestone in terms of pairing France’s two greatest stars of the time.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsBrigitte BardotPaul MeurisseCharles VanelA liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?Bardot’s greatest box-office success is another serious drama in which her character, Dominique Marceau, is judged for the murder of her lover. But if the film puts both character and star on trial, and works within Clouzot’s characteristic noir style, it nevertheless sides with her as telling ‘the truth’ against the representatives of France’s patriarchal establishment.