Painfully dull Brigette Bardot vehicle, the one that made her world famous. Bardot plays a lusty young woman who must marry before she is sent back to the orphanage ([smile]). The man with whom she is actually in love is away and apparently never coming back, so she settles for his younger brother (Jean-Louis Trintignant, very lame in this early role). When the brother comes back, there's predictable trouble. The only good part of the film happens after Bardot runs away, expecting that her husband will want her to go. She finds a band practicing Carribean music, and she dances erotically to it. This was, I'm assuming, one of the first Technicolor films in France, and also one of the first in 'Scope. The color is great, but Vadim has no clue how to work with 'Scope. Everything's in long shot with only two or three close-ups of Bardot. What was Vadim thinking??? Brigette Bardot is obviously a gorgeous woman, but she's not a bad actress. When given good material, she can act. This is not good material, so her performance here is mediocre. 5/10.
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