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The Female

Original title: La femme et le pantin
  • 19581958
  • 1h 41m
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5.4/10
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Brigitte Bardot in The Female (1958)
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him. Only after she has humbled him mercilessly does she offer him her love in the end.
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Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him. Only after she has humbled him mercilessly does she o... Read allHandsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him. Only after she has humbled him mercilessly does she offer him her love in the end.Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him. Only after she has humbled him mercilessly does she offer him her love in the end.
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    • Julien Duvivier
  • Writers
    • Julien Duvivier
    • Marcel Achard(screenplay)
    • Albert Valentin(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Brigitte Bardot
    • Antonio Vilar
    • Darío Moreno
    • Julien Duvivier
  • Writers
    • Julien Duvivier
    • Marcel Achard(screenplay)
    • Albert Valentin(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Brigitte Bardot
    • Antonio Vilar
    • Darío Moreno
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    • 4User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Brigitte Bardot
    Brigitte Bardot
    • Eva Marchand
    Antonio Vilar
    Antonio Vilar
    • Don Matteo Diaz
    Darío Moreno
    Darío Moreno
    • Arabadjian
    Lila Kedrova
    Lila Kedrova
    • Manuela
    Jess Hahn
    Jess Hahn
    • Sidney
    Michel Roux
    • Albert
    Espanita Cortez
    • Maria Teresa
    Marie-José Guil
    • Pilar
    • (as Maria-José)
    Jacques Mauclair
    • Stanislas Marchand
    Claude Godard
    • Mercedès
    Betty Beckers
    • Une danseuse
    • (as Detty Beckers)
    Paul Bonifas
    Paul Bonifas
    • L'aubergiste
    Rivers Cadet
    • Le passager du bus
    Denise Carvenne
    Yolaine Dangly
    Gisèle Grimm
    Jacques Hilling
    Jacques Hilling
    • Le serveur
    Bob Ingarao
    • Un marin
      • Julien Duvivier
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      • Julien Duvivier
      • Marcel Achard(screenplay) (dialogue)
      • Albert Valentin(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      The first color movie for director Julien Duvivier.
    • Connections
      Featured in Legends of World Cinema: Brigitte Bardot

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    The puppet is Duvivier.
    "La femme et le pantin" is the most distressingly mediocre Duvivier film.It was absolutely bland ,not even distinguished by the professionalism that came to stamp his later work.It was exactly his professionalism that provoked the derision of the young Turks of the Nouvelle Vague for whom "carrying on the tradition" was not the road to follow.But when even professionalism is in question,what can be saved?

    "La femme et le pantin" found the director lost in the folklore for tourists and hiding behind Brigitte Bardot's sensual body.BB is the only thing worthwhile in the whole movie.She is probably the ideal actress cast in the wrong movie.She is sadly unsupported by a very poor cast:her lover is not even handsome ,her father acts like a zombie and her mother's overplaying is thoroughly unbearable.

    This is the third version of Pierre Louïs's novel;for the record,there was also De Baroncelli's (France,1928) ,Von Sternberg's ("The Devil is a Woman" ,US,1935) and Luis Bunuel 's( "Cet Obscur Objet du Desir" France,1977)

    Do not get me wrong:I am a big Duvivier fan and I have written more comments on his films than on any other director 's works.This is the only one of which I cannot say something nice.
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    • Dec 31, 2005

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      • February 13, 1959 (France)
      • France
      • Italy
      • Spanish
      • French
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      • Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
    • Production companies
      • Dear Film Produzione
      • Gray-Film
      • Progéfi
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    • 1 hour 41 minutes
      • Mono

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