Une Parisienne (1957)
(La Parisienne)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: Technicolor 86m
Director: Michel Boisrond
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal, Nadia Gray
Synopsis:
A minister's daughter falls in love with his cabinet secretary, whom she marries but must then cure of his outmoded attitude towards his mistresses.
Review:
Popular comedy of the period, with a modern girl (by French standards) haring around in her red sports car to a scat accompaniment (presumably Parisian equals feisty and rough-edged here). Having spent the first act in old-fashioned Rules of the Game-style bedroom hopping, the screenplay then veers off into Lubitsch territory with a Ruritanian prince in the shape of Boyer. It's all agreeable enough, but has very little to do with France in the 1950s. Bardot, fresh from Et Dieu créa... , is very sexy.
(La Parisienne)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: Technicolor 86m
Director: Michel Boisrond
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal, Nadia Gray
Synopsis:
A minister's daughter falls in love with his cabinet secretary, whom she marries but must then cure of his outmoded attitude towards his mistresses.
Review:
Popular comedy of the period, with a modern girl (by French standards) haring around in her red sports car to a scat accompaniment (presumably Parisian equals feisty and rough-edged here). Having spent the first act in old-fashioned Rules of the Game-style bedroom hopping, the screenplay then veers off into Lubitsch territory with a Ruritanian prince in the shape of Boyer. It's all agreeable enough, but has very little to do with France in the 1950s. Bardot, fresh from Et Dieu créa... , is very sexy.
(La Parisienne)
Country: FR/IT
Technical: Technicolor 86m
Director: Michel Boisrond
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, Henri Vidal, Nadia Gray
Synopsis:
A minister's daughter falls in love with his cabinet secretary, whom she marries but must then cure of his outmoded attitude towards his mistresses.
Review:
Popular comedy of the period, with a modern girl (by French standards) haring around in her red sports car to a scat accompaniment (presumably Parisian equals feisty and rough-edged here). Having spent the first act in old-fashioned Rules of the Game-style bedroom hopping, the screenplay then veers off into Lubitsch territory with a Ruritanian prince in the shape of Boyer. It's all agreeable enough, but has very little to do with France in the 1950s. Bardot, fresh from Et Dieu créa... , is very sexy.