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Summary: Outdated French melodrama leaves viewer empty
Review: Bardot, Bardot, Bardot. In the 1950's and 60's, this name would garauntee box office success. Unfortunately, this is the new millenium and there is little in this film to amuse viewers. First, the quality of the print used to make this video was so washed out that the film looks like monochrome. Secondly, Bardot, while sexy, does little to enhance this slow tale of a young women fighting the age old battle of the sexes with a drifter she picks up and brings home. Nudity, don't count on it. You'll get more on modern daytime soaps. If you just have to have more Bardot in you collection, OK, buy it. If your looking for entertainment, forget it.
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Summary: Outdated French melodrama leaves viewer empty
Review: Bardot, Bardot, Bardot. In the 1950's and 60's, this name would garauntee box office success. Unfortunately, this is the new millenium and there is little in this film to amuse viewers. First, the quality of the print used to make this video was so washed out that the film looks like monochrome. Secondly, Bardot, while sexy, does little to enhance this slow tale of a young women fighting the age old battle of the sexes with a drifter she picks up and brings home. Nudity, don't count on it. You'll get more on modern daytime soaps. If you just have to have more Bardot in you collection, OK, buy it. If your looking for entertainment, forget it.
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Summary: Well made and acted but too slow
Review: I saw a clear version of this movie under its French title Le Repos Du Guerrier. The movie had English subtitles.Bardot looks absolutely beautiful throughout this entire movie. Her acting is also incredibly good. She expresses a wide range of emotions (love, dispair, heartbreak, frustration, anger) very convincingly. By accident Bardot saves the life of a man (Robert Hossein) who tries to commit suicide. She befriends this pathetic creature and soon falls in love with him. They become lovers as Bardot breaks off her engagement to another man. Her new lover is both odd and mysterious. He loves Bardot but doesn't want to give himself to her completely. When Bardot finally leaves him, he becomes a lost soul. He can't live without her. He finds Bardot and asks her to marry him. She embraces him warmly. I believe this movie was well made and appeals to a certain audience but it was simply too slow and soap-opera like for my taste.
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Summary: Decent
Review: The beauty of Bardot is horribly marred by the poor picture quality of this film. The color is so screwed that the film appears to be in yellow.
No special features are offered on this DVD. It contains english dubbing which I think is fine because I prefer to watch dubbed foreign films anyway.
Since this is the only version of the film on DVD, I settled for what I could get.
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Summary: A classically great slice of 1960's Beatnik love drama...
Review: This film amazed me. I was so sad to see that the original film transfer had degraded so badly that the film is virtually washed out of color, but then again, there has never been any problem with black & white film has there? There is some very solid direction from Vadim, plus great acting from Bardot and Robert Hossein. The story takes place in the great European period of the 1960's where tragic love stories reign better than they ever have. Give me this over any American romantic comedy anyday (And technically this is a true romantic comedy in light of the story structure and the ending in particular, it is just the superior European take). If you love this time period as conveyed through film, and like Bardot, this is a definite addition to add to your library!
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Summary: A jaundiced version?
Review: THIS is an extraordinary film..the entire picture looks jaundiced that it might perhaps be better off described as black&yellow rather than colour. That aside this is the dubbed version, something I never really liked in a film, the stars' lips were obviously out of sync with the dialogue and the plot incredibly shallow and bland ( though I suspect it was intended to convey some profound message...but what?). Bardot saves a man's life and falls for this sad character...well love is truly blind here and in the process dumps her fiancee and starts avoiding her mother. Finally if I was not a Bardot fan I would not have sat through this....my eyes were sore afterwards.
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Summary: A jaundiced version?
Review: THIS is an extraordinary film..the entire picture looks jaundiced that it might perhaps be better off described as black&yellow rather than colour. That aside this is the dubbed version, something I never really liked in a film, the stars' lips were obviously out of sync with the dialogue and the plot incredibly shallow and bland ( though I suspect it was intended to convey some profound message...but what?). Bardot saves a man's life and falls for this sad character...well love is truly blind here and in the process dumps her fiancee and starts avoiding her mother. Finally if I was not a Bardot fan I would not have sat through this....my eyes were sore afterwards.
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Summary: Of little interest cinematic interest, but full of ambiguity
Review: Vadim's films may be exploitations, but they are also contradictory narratives about his own life, his own power in discovering Brigitte Bardot ('And God created woman': modest, isn't he?) and emasculation in having her transcend and ultimately reject his influence. This film is typical. On the one hand it is an 'anti-bourgeois' (yawn) tale of a woman who leaves her dull husband, embraces sexual 'liberation' (i.e. hoovers in her birthday suit) and eventually masters her mean lover in an extended rite of psychological S&M. This is Bardot's narrative. On the other, Bardot is repeatedly stripped and humiliated for men (her lover; Vadim; the implied viewer), but shot in a fragmentary way that denies her even sexual power. This is Vadim's narrative. Guess which wins.
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