With the sad news of the death of Brigitte Bardot, age 91, Ginette Vincendeau – author of a book on Bardot – picks out her favourite movies starring the iconic French superstar.
Et Dieu… créa la femme (And God Created Woman, 1956)
Director: Roger Vadim
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!’…