The astounding success of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman revolutionised the life of French films abroad, turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star and launched Saint-Tropez as the new hype holiday destination. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naive husband Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
The film created a scandal at the time, especially in the US where it was dubbed ‘God Created Woman but the Devil created Brigitte Bardot!’