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Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

elvircorhodzic ....and GOD CREATED WOMAN is a very frivolous drama, through which permeates a fresh erotic and tragic story of young people. An eighteen-year orphan girl is the object of desire of many men in a small fishing town. Her provocative behavior is scandalous for most citizens. However, the real problems arise when she marries a naive young man who is crazy about her...It is a very interesting conflict between a frivolous dialogue and tragic story in this film. Scenery is full of "freshness" considering the sun, the sea, the heat and a naked girl, but atmosphere is gloomy and depressing. Mr. Vadim has made a film in which the protagonists are in a kind of conflict with themselves, among themselves and with nature. As a result of that appears a wild and irrational girl that breaks certain social taboos.Brigitte Bardot as Juliette Hardy is somehow amoral girl. „She is brave enough to do what she wants when she wants." I think everyone will enjoy her nakedness. Bardot moves herself in a fashion that fully accentuates her charms. However, those who have enjoyed her acting are probably rare. A young, beautiful and pretty actress has become a sex symbol.Curd Jürgens as Éric Carradin is an old businessman and cunning fox, who is experienced enough to not put his life into the hands of one wild girl. Jean-Louis Trintignant as Michel Tardieu is Juliette's husband. He was deeply depressed and fascinated with his playful wife at the same time. Christian Marquand as Antoine Tardieus is an older brother and a real playboy in a small town. His guilt was so ironic.This is a circus of the film, but I enjoyed the beautiful images of St. Tropez and the lovely Brigitte.

Modern Monsters A parasitic form of life, women love nothing more than being slapped in the face. That's the idea behind Roger Vadim's first movie, which alternative title could be St Tropez… In the Beginning, a quainter than quaint piece, dated before being contemporary. It nevertheless drew massive crowds, and placed Brigitte Bardot's on orbit as THE French sex Goddess. To each his own.Arguing that Vadim was more interested in playing God with women than in cinema undoubtedly has a point. His track record in womanizing is impressive. His writing and directing are far less stellar though, a curious case of zeitgeist marginally interfering with melodrama, present movie being the prefect case study.The mother of Tropezian Tart, Juliette (BB) is a despicable tease and a sloth. She wants to be happy and makes everyone miserable in the process; she is a black hole of selfishness and stupidity. Far above her head when it comes to even wake up, she sow frustration and destruction wherever she goes, barefoot, under St Tropez's stupid, selfish sun. She's in love, but not quite, with one guy whose brother Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant, handsome in his prime) she will marry, precipitating a not very interesting chain of events including guns, a juke box, a torrid mambo scene and Curt Jurgens as the cosmopolitan vile seducer without whom the whole piece would play out like Marcel Pagnol.Bardot is a complete cipher, reluctant to act as to be filmed. She either pouts in rebellion or pouts in lascivious oblivion of said rebellion. She's the French Megan Fox, at an antiquated time when a novelty actress career could last for more than three movies. Jurgens is straight out of an Eddie Constantine movie and Trintignant, still inexperienced, is by far the best of the lot.Scenes abruptly fade to black after half hearted one-liners, leading to nothing but the oh-so-slow build-up of a presumably dramatic end but fear not, if you have the leisure of feeling involved between two yawns, nothing bad will happen and the status quo will prevail. "I would like to think of nothing", says Bardot, meaning herself, then she dances in front of a mirror since she only likes herself and not even that much. A couple of slaps later she's back in the marital bed; a sex Goddess indeed.Vadim and Bardot kinda invented reality TV, And God Created Woman a precursor of Temptation in the Kardashian Island. Is that worth of your time 60 years later? Definitely not, according to Vadim, whose last movie was a remake of the same, featuring Rebecca de Mornay, the American Brigitte Bardot. Sigh.

dlee2012 This Vadim film is an extremely poorly crafted piece of work, interesting today only because of the social impact its star, Brigitte Bardot made. Her first major starring role, it presents her as a liberated, care-free woman and she presents a striking contrast to prior representations of women on the French screen.Her character's youthfulness, petulance, irrepressible energy and, on a negative note, selfishness, stand in contrast to previous women who were by and large either highly virtuous and prim and proper or gangsters' molls of dubious reputations.The appearance of this youthful character appears at the same time as ideas about teenagers and their importance as a consumer market were emerging in the English-speaking world, most notably the United States, particularly as the rock 'n' roll craze began. Indeed, Bardot's character perfectly captures the flightiness, impulsiveness and selfishness of so many female teenagers and the wild dance at the end makes the connection between music, consumerism and this new attitude.Other than that, though, this is a crudely-made film. The bright, sunlit scenes and bold colour may convey a hope and optimism but the cinematography is static, the pace slow and the narrative uninteresting. Bardot may capture youthfulness but that does not make her character any more likable, particularly with regard to her flighty behaviour and unfaithfulness toward her husband.Indeed, none of the characters are likable, meaning the audience quickly loses interest in their dull squabbles and selfish attitudes.Perhaps this film is best viewed as a period piece then. It may have captured the zeitgeist for youth in 1956 and caused a minor shock in the prudish United States but it does not stand the test of time. Bardot still looks modern and reflects the attitude of many teenage girls even today but the rest of the film is tired and stale.

Claudio Carvalho In St. Tropez, the orphan Juliete Hardy (Brigitte Bardot) is an eighteen years old woman sexually active and ahead of time, strongly desired by the wealthy middle age man Eric Carradine (Curd Jurgens). She has a crush on Antoine Tardieu (Christian Marquand), the older son that works in Toulon of a poor family that owns a modest shipyard, but he just want to have one nightstand with her. When Juliete's stepparents decide to send her back to the orphanage because of her bad reputation in the town, Antoine's brother Michel Tardieu (Jean-Louis Trintignant) proposes to marry her and she accepts, and she begins to love him. But when the Tardieu family decides to sell the shipyard to Eric and Antoine returns to St. Tropez, her lust for him blossoms again and becomes an announced tragedy.This is the first time that I watch "Et Dieu... Créa la Femme" and I found it a surprisingly good movie. The story is extremely sexy and ahead of time, and works mainly because of the extremely beautiful and sensual Brigitte Bardot. Her sensuality and eroticism is impressive even in 2007, and I confess that I felt in love for her. The IMDb Tagline "...but the devil invented Brigitte Bardot!" is amazing, certainly one of the best I have ever read in this outstanding site. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "…E Deus Criou a Mulher" ("…And God Created the Woman")