Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956)

Director:

Roger Vadim

Writers:

Roger Vadim (writer) and
Raoul Lévy (writer)

Release Date:

21 October 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

...but the devil invented Brigitte Bardot!

Plot:

In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other.

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Marriage Proposal | Love Triangle | France | Buxom

Cast

Brigitte Bardot	...	Juliete Hardy
Curd Jürgens	...	Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Michel Tardieu
Jane Marken	...	Madame Morin (as Jeanne Marken)
Jean Tissier	...	M. Vigier-Lefranc
Isabelle Corey	...	Lucienne
Jacqueline Ventura	...	Mme Vigier-Lefranc
Jacques Ciron	...	Le secrétaire d'Eric
Paul Faivre	...	M. Morin
Jany Mourey	...	Le déléguée de l'évêché
Philippe Grenier	...	Perri
Jean Lefebvre	...	L'homme qui veut danser (as Jean Lefèvre)
Leopoldo Francés	...	Le danseur (as Leopoldo Frances)
Jean Toscano	...	Rene (as Toscano)
Marie Glory	...	Mme. Tardieu (as Mary Glory)

Also Known As:

...And God Created Woman (USA)
And Woman... Was Created (UK)
E Dio creò la donna (Italy)
Piace a troppi (Italy)

Runtime:

95 min | USA:90 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:X (original rating) | UK:PG (video release) | Germany:12 (TV re-rating) | West Germany:18 (original rating) (1957) | Finland:K-16 | Hong Kong:IIA | Sweden:15 | USA:PG (1978)

Filming Locations:

2 rue de Cepoun Louis Sanmartin, Saint-Tropez, Var, France

Company:

Cocinor

Trivia:

Was condemned by the Catholic Church's Legion of Decency within months after the Baby Doll (1956) boycott and caused a huge uproar in the United States for its sexual content.

Quotes:

Juliete Hardy: That's my favorite song!
Antoine Tardieu: It's the first time I ever heard it.
Juliete Hardy: Me too.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Cheers: And God Created Woodman (#6.14)" (1988)

Soundtrack:

Mon coeur éclate

And the cinema created Bardot

This was the movie which launched Brigitte Bardot as the sex symbol of the fifties and sixties in the the role of the teenager Juliette. And this is really a movie about a woman. She fills the screen during the whole projection with her gorgeous and generous anatomy and also with her way of smiling, talking, laughing, walking and dancing in a mixture of flesh, fire and beauty displaying moreover her personality and her fears, desires and anguish. However she is no "femme fatale" and only a tender teenager who cannot be blamed for having been born so pretty, charming and physically well shaped and who sometimes appears almost like a defenceless child. The story involves not the classical triangle but a quadrilateral instead whose vertices are besides Juliette herself, her young husband, his brother and the rich middle aged businessman who covets her since the beginning. The end of the story is somewhat conventional but acceptable anyway. This movie was received like a bomb in the movie world shaking some moral canons and shocking a lot people although by today's patterns it can be judged as rather innocent. Anyway the story is simple,original and well conceived and the actors play well which makes it a good movie after all.