Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (1959)

Director:

Michel Boisrond

Writers:

Kelley Roos (novel)
Gérard Oury (adaptation) ...

Release Date:

7 November 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Tagline:

If you want to live dangerously ... Come Dance With Me! Her rhythm is wicked ... with a two-time beat.

Plot:

Handsome dentist Herve Dandieu, temporarily separated from his new, delectable wife Virginie by a lovers' tiff...

Plot Keywords:

Dance | Dance School | Dance Teacher | Dentist | Blackmail

Cast

Brigitte Bardot	...	Virginie Dandieu
Henri Vidal	...	Hervé Dandieu
Dawn Addams	...	Anita Florès
Darío Moreno	...	Florès
Georges Descrières	...	Gérard Lalemand (as Georges Descrières sociétaire de la Comédie Française)
Serge Gainsbourg	...	Léon
Joyce Johnson
Maria Pacôme	...	Daisy (as Maria Pacome)
François Chaumette	...	Joseph, l'inspecteur
Pascal Mazzotti	...	Le barman (as Pascal Mazotti)
Magdeleine Bérubet	...	Clémence (as Magdeleine Berubet)
Marie-Thérèse Orain		(as M.T. Orain)
Paul Frankeur	...	Le commissaire / Inspector Marchal
Noël Roquevert	...	Albert Decauville-Lachenée
Philippe Nicaud	...	Daniel

Also Known As:

Come Dance with Me (UK)
Come Dance with Me! (USA)
Do You Want to Dance with Me? (International: English title) (literal title)
Sexy girl (Italy)

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:18 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Studios de la Victorine - 16 avenue Edoard Grinda, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Company:

Francos Films

Trivia:

Sylvia Lopez was originally cast as Anita, but after a few days of shooting became too ill with terminal leukemia to continue. Co-star Henri Vidal died soon after completing this film.

Bardot at 24 was a stunner!

Brigitte Bardot was so completely feminine, playful, beautiful, and witty, she couldn't miss connecting with the male sector of any movie-going audience. And the women must have hated her, or at least envied her to tears.

Bardot's face is so luminous, focusing upon it is more stimulating than seeing close-up, revealing body shots of her contemporaries such as Eckberg and Lollobrigida. She could take a mediocre, or in this case, convoluted plot, and save a film which would have been a dud with just about any other female star.

The film is fast-paced, and suspenseful, in so far as the futility of trying to guess the culprit's identity, prior to the odds and ends being tied up neatly, in the end. And it far surpasses Bardot's collaboration with director Michel Boisrond, in "Mme. Pigalle," produced three years earlier. That one is filled with artifice and "mannerisms." such as fake auto rides, background landscape fakery, lip-synch singing, fake piano playing, and the stereotypical bumbling, "moronic cops" syndrome, so prevalent in films of the time. This film contains no artifice, or editing "tricks," whatsoever, and while it lacks for substance, it is entertaining, and the Bardot charisma at this most appealing stage of her life, stays with one, long after the curtain rings down.

Henri Vidal, in his final role before his untimely death at age 40, is well-cast, as Bardot's husband who is being blackmailed by femme fatale Dawn Addams, herself a red-headed stunner who exits the film much too soon to suit the male voyeur contingent.

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