France
1956
92 minutes
Color
2.35:1
French
77
The astounding success of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his attempts to tame her wild ways.
| Juliette | Brigitte Bardot |
| Michel | Jean-Louis Trintignant |
| Eric | Curd Jürgens |
| Madame Morin | Jeanne Marken |
| Madame Vigier-Lefranc | Jean Tisier |
| Lucienne | Isbelle Cory |
| Madame Tardieu | Mary Glory |
| Christian | Georges Poujouly |
| Antoine | Christian Marquand |
| Director | Roger Vadim |
| Written and directed by | Roger Vadim |
| Original story | Roger Vadim and Raoul Lévy |
| Cinematography | Armand Thirard |
| Sound | Pierre-Louis Calvet |
| Sets | Jean André |
| Editing | Victoria Mercanton |
| Makeup | Hagop Arakelian |
| Production Design | Claude Ganz |
| Music | Paul Misraki |
| Musical director | Marc Lanjean |
| Producer | Raoul Lévy |
In honor of the Museum of the Moving Image and the Museum of Arts and Design’s joint retrospective French New Wave Essentials, now ongoing in New York, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2009/07/-and-god-created...
Released in Paris, to little initial acclaim, in 1956, And God Created Woman was scarcely Brigitte Bardot’s first film. By most filmographers’ reckonings, it was her seventeenth. You mean to say you don’t remember The Girl in the Bikini...
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