6/10
Bardot was young and she was nearer the spirit of post-war youth...
19 July 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Brigitte Bardot's earliest incarnation as a sex goddess was as the pretty but somewhat vain young girl in 1952's "Le Trou Normand," her first film, featuring the great comedian Bourvil…

In this painlessly light French comedy she was beginning to demonstrate the influence of Roger Vadim, who had begun to prepare her for the fame she would soon attain as a beautiful, capricious and highly provocative personality…

In "Crazy For Love" she portrayed a character who was the antithesis of the introverted young schoolteacher played by Nadine Basile…

Bardot's image of French liberality in matters of love and sex, made more impact on foreign consciousness than did the films which displayed them...

She was a precursor of the confident, liberated, self-sufficient stars of the 'sixties and 'seventies like Jane Fonda and Julie Christie...
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