En effeuillant la marguerite (1956)
(Plucking the Daisy)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Marc Allégret
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Dumesnil, Luciana Paluzzi, Darry Cowl
Synopsis:
A provincial girl, who has embarrassed her general father by publishing a scurrilous tome lampooning members of Vichy society, runs away to the capital to join her painter brother and hopefully publicise her book. Her naivety disarms the press and jeopardises her brother's position, and to make amends she volunteers for a striptease competition whose final takes place in ... Vichy!
Review:
This trivial comedy's knowing title (replaced by an even less subtle one in English) alludes to the act of striptease as well as the old 'she loves me, she loves me not' routine, and is a fair measure of the unreconstructed male chauvinism of Allégret and Vadim's script: Daniel can justifiably lust after Sophia so long as he professes undying love for Agnès, and even though he does not know they are the same, and secretaries are happy being squeezed and kissed, provided it is by someone good-looking. It is all very much of its time and comparable with the English equivalent (a Doctor movie, say), except that the striptease is a whole lot franker (Bardot gets to keep her clothes; others do not). Mischa Auer performs a cameo as an unusually patient Parisian taxi driver.
(Plucking the Daisy)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Marc Allégret
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Dumesnil, Luciana Paluzzi, Darry Cowl
Synopsis:
A provincial girl, who has embarrassed her general father by publishing a scurrilous tome lampooning members of Vichy society, runs away to the capital to join her painter brother and hopefully publicise her book. Her naivety disarms the press and jeopardises her brother's position, and to make amends she volunteers for a striptease competition whose final takes place in ... Vichy!
Review:
This trivial comedy's knowing title (replaced by an even less subtle one in English) alludes to the act of striptease as well as the old 'she loves me, she loves me not' routine, and is a fair measure of the unreconstructed male chauvinism of Allégret and Vadim's script: Daniel can justifiably lust after Sophia so long as he professes undying love for Agnès, and even though he does not know they are the same, and secretaries are happy being squeezed and kissed, provided it is by someone good-looking. It is all very much of its time and comparable with the English equivalent (a Doctor movie, say), except that the striptease is a whole lot franker (Bardot gets to keep her clothes; others do not). Mischa Auer performs a cameo as an unusually patient Parisian taxi driver.
(Plucking the Daisy)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 98m
Director: Marc Allégret
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Dumesnil, Luciana Paluzzi, Darry Cowl
Synopsis:
A provincial girl, who has embarrassed her general father by publishing a scurrilous tome lampooning members of Vichy society, runs away to the capital to join her painter brother and hopefully publicise her book. Her naivety disarms the press and jeopardises her brother's position, and to make amends she volunteers for a striptease competition whose final takes place in ... Vichy!
Review:
This trivial comedy's knowing title (replaced by an even less subtle one in English) alludes to the act of striptease as well as the old 'she loves me, she loves me not' routine, and is a fair measure of the unreconstructed male chauvinism of Allégret and Vadim's script: Daniel can justifiably lust after Sophia so long as he professes undying love for Agnès, and even though he does not know they are the same, and secretaries are happy being squeezed and kissed, provided it is by someone good-looking. It is all very much of its time and comparable with the English equivalent (a Doctor movie, say), except that the striptease is a whole lot franker (Bardot gets to keep her clothes; others do not). Mischa Auer performs a cameo as an unusually patient Parisian taxi driver.