BARDOT
| 2025 – 6 x 52′ – Series (Season 1) – Drama, Biopic, Period & History, Films About Cinema, Music & Dance.
Created by: Danièle and Christopher Thompson.
Written by: Danièle and Christopher Thompson.
Directed by: Danièle and Christopher Thompson.
Starring: Julia de Nunez, Hyppolite Girardot, Géraldine Pailhas, Victor Belmondo, Yvan Attal, Anne Le Ny, Noham Edge, Lou Gable , Laurent Stocker.
Official Competition TAFFF 2023 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A PBS Masterpiece release. |
Fresh-faced newcomer Julia de Nunez brings the iconic Brigitte Bardot to visceral, plaintive life in her very first screen performance, opposite the equally charismatic Victor Belmondo (Jean-Paul’s grandson), who plays writer/director Roger Vadim. Touting an all-star French cast, the six-episode biopic series traces the life of the ’50s “French bombshell,” from her first audition at 15, through her explosive international breakout in Vadim’s risqué 1957 …And God Created Woman, to her powerful performance in Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Truth in 1960. Bardot is more than a myth in her native country — “sex kitten,” Marianne (the national personification of liberty), unrelenting animal rights activist, and what Simone de Beauvoir called “the most liberated woman in post-war France,” all rolled into one. And de Nunez indeed manages to evoke all that with grace, poise and apparent ease in this post-WWII Pygmalion story in which a sheltered bourgeois teen-age girl ignites a veritable sexual revolution in France.