Without a doubt.
The other B.B. films worth watching are:
En cas de malheur (1957)
Boulevard du Rhum (1970)
L’Ours et la Poupee (1969)
Voulez-vous danser avec moi? (1959)
Babette s’en va-t-en guerre (1959)
Une Parisienne (1957)
En effeuillant la marguerite (1956)
Cette sacree gaimne (1955)
Les Petroleuses (1971)
oh, and of course:
Viva Maria (1965)
Vie privee (1961)
Et Dieu crea la femme (1956)
Viva Bardot!
Great 'La Verite' review:
http://mooninthegutter.blogspot.com/2008/11/overlooked-classics-henri- georges.html
Viva Bardot!
You forgot CONTEMPT. :)
It's a brilliant performance. Her final scene is absolutely stunning in every way...
It's also one of my three favorite Clouzot works (with L'ENFER and LA PRISONNIERE).
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You forgot CONTEMPT. :)
I mean the existing footage. Essentially, you have the entire plot, you have the footage and all the bits and pieces that aren't assembled, with some stuff missing, but in itself, what exists of L'ENFER, is absolutely breathtaking.
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I'd love to see it! Where can I find it? Because I've only seen those YouTube clips.
Viva Bardot!
It's out on DVD (there's even one edition that includes LA PRISONNIERE as an extra!! though the quality of that one isn't too bright), or well... I guess to be found in the usual places.
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or well... I guess to be found in the usual places.
It's no longer listed at Amazon.com - I haven't checked other sources - but several years ago I bought from a Marketplace seller a homeburned copy of La Verite that as far as I am able to figure out may have been ripped from Canadian TV. It had no subtitles, and at least one scene, of Bardot jumping out of bed with her breast in full view, having been cut. I don't really recall now, but it seems to me that when I saw it long ago in a theater it had a longer sequence of the bed scene but without further frontal nudity.
shareI've got it but it's downloaded from eMule and it doesn't have the scene you're writing about. It does have a scene in the bed, but B.B. is under a sheet. TIn the other scene She puts a record on Her vinyl player and dances in the nude, but we can see only her nude back.
Viva Bardot!
The theatrical version that I saw in France when it first came out very definitely had her naked right breast swinging quickly by, quite close to the camera, as she jumps out of bed. It made a big impression on me at the time -one didn't usually find naked breasts in films then - and I described it at that time to friends who had not seen the film, so this is not an instance of "remembering" years after the fact something that was never actually in the film.
I'm sorry to learn that it's apparently now gone forever, but that would fit with Bardot's subsequent protection of her public image.
That's sucks! Hopefully, one day we'll be able to see the full version of the film!
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Karem, that is very curious. Especially because there is a sudden cut in that scene... Hmmmmmmm...
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At 4:32... ;)
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Great BB performance. Definitely her best film. I agree with the poster who called LE MEPRIS boring. The best thing about that film film is the opening sequence.
"Peggy, this isn't China. There's no money in virginity."
I'm more an admirer of her singing. There's a timeless enchantment in her voice that you can't teach, learn.