...And God Created Woman (The Criterion Collection)
by Roger Vadim
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Actor: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jane Marken, Jean Tissier, Jean-Louis TrintignantDirector: Roger Vadim
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of ...And God Created Woman (The Criterion Collection)
Movie Review: The power of being a Woman
Summary: 5 Stars
This film blew me away. Not just because of the beautiful views of St. Tropez - which made me add it to my list of favorite places to visit before I could say `woman' - but because Brigitte Bardot oozes a sensuality - and sexuality, that I have NEVER seen in any other actress on screen. She is the total, absolute sex bomb and rightfully coined the term Sex Symbol for herself and herself only.
Bardot was cast in the film by her then husband Roger Vadim, who later also married Jane Fonda. It seemed the man knew a special thing when he came across one, and he certainly demonstrated his scouting talent when he cast Bardot as a sexual pussycat. Bardot has a perfect body and is the constant focus of the camera. Her pout, her dancing, the tight clothes and the hints of nudity, it is just too scandalous for the 1950's and too iconic a piece of film for any era.
Bardot plays Juliette Hardy, an under-aged orphan who has been placed with a foster family composed of an old wife with no sense of humour and an invalid husband with a dirty mind. Juliette can stay with them as long as she demonstrates responsibility and industriousness. But of course, her hot looks and even hotter desires keep getting her into trouble, most of the time out of no fault of her own. She falls in love with the eldest brother from a local shipbuilder family, but due to the man's (any wonder?) insecurity, ends up marrying one of the other brothers - the (ostensibly) "dull" one. Although the move keeps her out of the orphanage, it certainly does not keep her out of trouble, and Juliette's desires make her succumb to her own wish for lust. But when this happens, she realizes that what once felt like heaven has suddenly lost its attractiveness. She dances out of rage as her husband confronts her and the film nears the end.
After this film, everybody wanted to be tanning on a beach in St. Tropez wearing a gingham bikini, everybody wanted to have big, blonde "beach hair", and everybody wanted to look perversely innocent as Brigitte Bardot. Who wouldn't? The woman is certainly out of this world.
Summary of ...And God Created Woman (The Criterion Collection)
The astounding success of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways. Criterion presents this milestone of cinematic naughtiness in a stunning new 16x9 Eastmancolor transfer, supervised by the late director.Roger Vadim's directorial debut is more titillation than continental cool, but it broke box-office records and censorship taboos in its teasing display of sex and eroticism in the sunny vacation playground of the Saint-Tropez seashore. Vadim ushered in the era of continental attitudes toward sex and christened the voluptuous Brigitte Bardot (his wife) the world's original sex kitten: earthy, innocent, and all fleshy curves. Bardot is Juliette, a pouty child-woman orphan prone to nude sunbathing and playful flirting. Though pursued by a rich widower (Curt Jurgens) and attracted to the brawny fisherman Antoine (Christian Marquand), she marries Antoine's shy younger brother Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an earnest, innocent kid hardly older than she but far less worldly. Despite her sincere efforts to "be good," Juliette gives in to Michel's advances, setting off a chain of events that ends in fraternal conflict. Vadim keeps the display of skin this side of an R rating, but only barely, teasing the male audience with skimpy outfits, barely concealing sheets, and often conveniently arranged scenery. Bohemian Bardot frolics through the film with nary a self-conscious moment, culminating in a passionate mambo, her pent-up frustration and sexual confusion exploding in a mad dance as bongos pound away on the soundtrack. Who needed Viagra in the '50s when Bardot was around? --Sean Axmaker
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