...And God Created Woman - Criterion Collection |  | Director: Roger Vadim
Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Marken, Jean Tissier
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
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Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 037429147825
ISBN: 0780023110
UPC: 037429147825
EAN: 9780780023116
ASIN: 0780023110
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 1957
Release Date: November 21, 2000
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Roger Vadim's directorial debut is more titillation than continental cool, but it broke box-office records and censorship taboos in its teasing display of sex and eroticism in the sunny vacation playground of the Saint-Tropez seashore. Vadim ushered in the era of continental attitudes toward sex and christened the voluptuous Brigitte Bardot (his wife) the world's original sex kitten: earthy, innocent, and all fleshy curves. Bardot is Juliette, a pouty child-woman orphan prone to nude sunbathing and playful flirting. Though pursued by a rich widower (Curt Jurgens) and attracted to the brawny fisherman Antoine (Christian Marquand), she marries Antoine's shy younger brother Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an earnest, innocent kid hardly older than she but far less worldly. Despite her sincere efforts to "be good," Juliette gives in to Michel's advances, setting off a chain of events that ends in fraternal conflict. Vadim keeps the display of skin this side of an R rating, but only barely, teasing the male audience with skimpy outfits, barely concealing sheets, and often conveniently arranged scenery. Bohemian Bardot frolics through the film with nary a self-conscious moment, culminating in a passionate mambo, her pent-up frustration and sexual confusion exploding in a mad dance as bongos pound away on the soundtrack. Who needed Viagra in the '50s when Bardot was around? --Sean Axmaker
Product Description
Brigitte bardot stars as juliette an 18-year-old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure causes trouble in the french riveria: her staid husband michael endures beatings insults and mambo in his attempts to tame her. Special features: u.S. Theatrical trailer restoration demonstration and more. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 07/11/2000 Starring: Brigitte Bardot Curd Jurgens Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Roger Vadim
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 35
 AND GOD CREATED WOMAN April 15, 2010
L. Fielder (AUSTRALIA)
MOVIE IS A FRENCH CINEMA CLASSIC ABOUT A BEAUTIFUL, MISUNDERSTOOD AND MALIGNED GIRL WHO LOVES BUT IS TREATED POORLY BY A MAN AND HIS MOTHER. SHE IS, HOWEVER, LOVED BY HIS BROTHER AND EVENTUALLY MARRIES HIM. ALL IS GREAT FOR A WHILE. BRIGITTE IS BEAUTIFUL AND PETULANT. IT IS ALSO INTERESTING TO SEE ST TROPEZ 50 YEARS AGO.
DELIVERY WAS PROMPT. I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT IT NOT BEING PLAYABLE DUE TO DIFFERING REGIONS, BUT THIS WAS NOT AN ISSUE.
 Brigitte Bardot, way over-rated February 23, 2010
Reza Ganjavi
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't get it, what's so great about Brigitte Bardot? She was soooooo famous.
The movie has nice scenes of Monte Carlo and the color restoration makes the natural scenes very pretty. Brigitte Bardot is neither pretty nor has a particularly attractive body, she must be a good actress then :)
BARDOT AND ST. TROPEZ: A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN February 18, 2010
Anthony Crnkovich (Chicago, Illinois)
Brigitte Bardot had already made 16 films before New Wave director and then husband Roger Vadim cast her in his tribute to feminine allure. Though tame by today's standards, AND GOD CREATED WOMAN, released in 1956, was the film that single handedly turned Bardot into an international sex symbol and cinematic icon.
The plot is a simple one: Bardot plays Juliette, an orphaned, untamed man-teaser who yearns for lasting happiness, but at the same time believes herself unworthy of ever receiving it.
With this one role, Bardot brought a new type to movies - a complex, uninhibited woman possessed of an innate, surging sensuality, but who is essentially innocent. When Bardot's Juliette jumped atop a table and danced herself into a frenzy to a seductive mamba beat, it caused an overnight sensation and opened the floodgates for countless BB wannabees the world over.
Besides Bardot, the film offers us the beauty and splendor of the St. Tropez locale, lovingly captured by Vadim's expert camera eye. The memorable ending scene, shot along a dock, is effectively low key and downbeat; its poignancy punctuated by Paul Misraki's haunting music. The Criterion disc is off a gorgeous, fully restored transfer that was supervised by Vadim himself.
Bardot went on to make many more films - some truly great, some not so - in all of them she shines and makes the lesser ones worthwhile if only because of her engaging presence.
To see the essence of the legend that is Brigitte Bardot, AND GOD CREATED WOMAN is a great introduction because it's all here - the beauty, the talent, and the mystique. It's the one that hooked me, and it just might do the same for you.
 And God created woman review January 25, 2010
Joseph Piccone
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed in the movie. This may have been sexy or R rated for the fifty's but it is PG by today's standards. It was well done but don't waste your money if you are looking for sexy.
JP
This is it! January 2, 2010
Mark S. Williams
This is it! The movie that first brought modern eroticism to the silver screen. This is the performance that lifted Brigitte Bardot to towering heights of international stardom, and it's easy to see why. Even now, after decades of an endless procession of BB imitators and ever more graphic film content, this movie packs a real sexual charge. It's not a perfect film. Tod Browning's production of DRACULA wasn't a perfect film, either. However, it's impossible to imagine anyone other than Bela Lugosi as the Count, just as it's impossible to imagine anyone other than BB bringing so much life to the role of Juliette here.
It's certainly one of Mlle. Bardot's greatest films ever, and as such, is essential viewing. If you haven't seen it already, what the heck are you waiting for?
NOTE: Untypically, the Criterion Collection edition has no extras. However, it's certainly the sharpest and cleanest looking transfer available. As a classic of world cinema and a work of historical importance, I recommend it with no reservations.
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