One of the DVDs I picked up at the Barnes & Noble's Criterion sale.The breakout hit for Brigitte Bardot - the film that made her famous. Or so I've read. I had no idea who Bardot was before this film. In what was a scandolous film at the time, Bardot plays a sex-driven young woman whose well known around town. When she is threatened with being sent back to foster care, the brother of the man she loves steps up and offers to marry her. Juliete, Bardot's character, is, of course, unable to change her ways and is cheats on her husband.
The film is a pretext to show off Bardot and nothing more. She spends the film in various states of undress, though never nude. It's easy to see why the film caused a controversy in the 1950s, and while it's relatively tame by today's standards, the film still encapsulates the beauty of Bardot. The story is fairly simple and predictable, but the viewing experience isn't found in the story but from watching Bardot.
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