Love on a Pillow
(1962)
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Love on a Pillow
(1962)
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| Brigitte Bardot | ... |
Geneviève Le Theil
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Robert Hossein | ... |
Renaud Sarti
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Jean-Marc Bory | ... |
Pierre Leroy
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Michel Serrault | ... |
Varange
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Jacqueline Porel | ... |
Mme. Le Theil, Geneviève's Mother
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Jean-Marc Tennberg | ... |
Coco
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Robert Dalban | ... |
Police Sergeant
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Ursula Kubler | ... |
Nurse
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Christian Melsen | ... |
Police Inspector
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Macha Méril | ... |
Raphaële
(as Macha Meril)
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| James Robertson Justice | ... |
Katov, Sculptor
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When the Parisian bourgeois Geneviève Le Theil travels to Dijon to resolve outstanding subjects in the inheritance left by her wealthy aunt, she mistakenly opens the door of another room in the hotel, finding a suicidal near death on the bed. Later Geneviève goes to the hospital and is introduced to Renaud Sarti, the nihilistic alcoholic vagrant she saved. Geneviève falls in love for Renaud and brings him to her apartment in Paris, initiating a destructive, masochistic and corrupt relationship with the abusive man. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This film's interest lies less in its indifferent, sweetly bourgeois bourgeois-baiting, than in its dramatisation of Vadim's mind, his sense of power in having 'created' Bebe; his emasculation as she transcended and abandoned him. This schizophrenia is given the revenge treatment here as Bardot navigates a liberating plot, eventually escaping stifling social respectability and imperiously mastering sadistic lover. This is filmed, however, in a fetishistic way, diminishing her sexual power, while leaving her nakedly vulnerable to the masculine gaze.