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- Female Narrator, English: A young ingenue sunbathing innocently. That's the essence of Roger Vadim. A keen eye for women, nudity, and for transgression - his own style of it. But, also for celebrating the sheer hedonistic pleasure of living.
- Female Narrator, English: Vadim embodies the 1960s spirit of free living, of living for pleasure or, as we say today, being cool.
- Female Narrator, English: Everything is easy for him. His first movie is a hit. He is married to Brigitte Bardot. He undresses her on screen. This handsome young devil already has a lot to be forgiven for.
- Female Narrator, English: Vadim is the story about a lifestyle: free, joyous, and princely.
- Female Narrator, English: An air of scandal sticks with this bluebeard, known for captivating beautiful young actresses, Brigitte Bardot, but, also, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda. Undressing them again and again for his camera.
- Female Narrator, English: Drinks at Café de Flore, nights at Le Tabou, jazz and mambo, pals and girlfriends, all this modernity would be inspiration for Vadim's films. It would become his hallmark, the Vadim style.
- Female Narrator, English: [referring to "And God Created Woman"] The censors have a field day. These scenes are too shocking for the era. They get axed for the film's release. They haven't been viewed in 60 years. - - Merely hinting at cunnilingus was unthinkable in 1956.
- Female Narrator, English: "And God Created Woman" revitalizes French cinema, which, by the 1950s was starting to smell rather musty. Vadim breaks with tradition by shooting in natural sets and by including his own entourage as actors. The film instantly charms the editors at "Les Cahiers Du Cinema" - these Young Turks who will soon carry the generic name of "la nouvelle vague', the new wave.
- Female Narrator, English: With Bardot, sex is no longer a sin. Vadim becomes the devil incarnate.
- Female Narrator, English: On the stairs of the legendary Tabou that on May 3, 1947, Vadim poses for the cover of the newspaper "Samedi-Soir", a candle in one hand and standing beside singer Juliet Greco, the muse of the existentialists. This news article makes it official that Vadim has a gift for being in the right place at the right time and this is just the beginning.
- Female Narrator, English: Vadim's chain of love stories begins with Brigitte Bardot, moves onto Annette Stroyberg, then Catherine Deneuve, and now Jane Fonda. He makes each one a star. But, is he truly the pygmalion that legend would have him be? Yes and no. He certainly is the one who made them revelations; but, each one left him and moved on to forge a career without him. In other words, Vadim knows how to look at them and, above all, he knows how to get them to look at themselves. He reveals their potential - a potential that they then make fruitful without him. In a way, he empowers them and lets them be free to do as they please.
- Female Narrator, English: Vadim's hallmark is filming his entourage. But, also, his favorite holiday spots, beginning with the little port town of Saint-Tropez - which the entire world would then designate as the place to be. It's like communicating vessels conducted by Vadim's own alchemy. Vadim's havens of pleasure become sets for his films, which then become popular destinations.
- Female Narrator, English: With so much success - movies, women - Vadim makes many jealous. But, in time, he becomes a prisoner of the character that he himself continues to craft. In "La Curée"- The Game is Over, Jane is topless for 25 seconds. There are press reports that Vadim filmed her naked in torrid sexual positions for two hours. He will soon be stuck with a reputation of being a dilettante who gleefully sprinkles his films with eroticism for commercial reasons.