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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780023116
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780023110
Label: Criterion Collection, The
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection, The
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Criterion Collection, The
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 21, 2000
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 24073
Studio: Criterion Collection, The
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1957
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good but not for the reason you think it will be
I purchased this to examine what was supposed to be a ground breaking film. It is always assumed that Bardot was just a sex kitten when it was scandolous to be one, however, the story line is clever, unpredictable, and would have been fabulous except for the obvious censorship that took away some of the sizzle that the director intended. Well worth the price.
Rating: - Lively, Sexy, Spunky entry of women in sex roles. A classic
This film is a classic in that the door was opened for women to perfom in vamp-tramp settings with some nudity and lots of spunky fun. Bridget is a deliciously sexy, loose, untamable, pouting young lady who disobeys her parents. At the same time she steals the heart of a rich older man who wants sex without marriage initially. She is coy. The oldest brother of
a local family propositions her, claiming he'll take her away to stay always together. Yet she hears him boast that his plans are ... Read More
Rating:  - This is the first film for Bardo & one of the famousof her movies.
I like to own many & famous films from the past , I think it's much better than now , noboby like: Doris Day , Lana Turner , Bette Davis & others
Rating:  - But where's Isabel?
I only saw this film because I learned that Isabel Corey (the beauty discovered by Jean-Pierre Melville and displayed in BOB LE FLAMBEUR) was in it. But director Roger Vadim probably feared the competition she presented to his wife, Brigitte Bardot, and kept Corey at a distance, or off-screen or in indistinct profile. I'd prefer Isabel to Brigitte any day.
Which is not to say that Brigitte lacked appeal. She had a pouty cuteness. She was a force of nature and that trumped her meager ... Read More
Rating: - Maybe I wanted a friend
Director: Roger Vadim
Duration: 92 minutes
Being that I have been delving into French New Wave films of the 1960s for the past few months, I figured that it was time for me to watch a film staring one of the key actresses of the period: the blonde, statuesque Brigitte Bardot. Before watching "...and God created woman," the only film in which I had seen Bardot was Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin feminin (1966). However, her presence was quite magnetic, so I was quite curious to see why ... Read More
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