Une Parisienne

‘A highly successful popular comedy in which Bardot perfected her comic-erotic persona (a critic called it “a daring documentary on the natural beauties of Brigitte Bardot”) but also demonstrated how much she had become the emblem of French modernity – a young woman whose looks, clothes and behaviour became massively imitated.’

Ginette Vincendeau

Brigitte Laurier (Brigitte Bardot), the President of France’s daughter marries Michel Legrand (Henri Vidal), her father’s buttoned-down chief of staff. But after her new husband starts stepping out behind her back, the young bride takes off for the Riviera. A game of cat and mouse ensues…