ChikPapa Very disappointed :(

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Claudio Carvalho The spoiled Ursula de Fonte (Brigitte Bardot) leaves the convent where she was educated to live with her Aunt Florentine (Alida Valli) and her tutor and uncle, Count Miguel de Ribera (Pepe Nieto), in a farm nearby a village in Spain. While driving through the village, Ursula sees the local dweller Lamberto (Stephen Boyd) accusing her uncle of being responsible for the suicide of his sister. Lamberto goes to the farm to fight against Miguel but he is beaten up. Ursula falls in love with Lamberto but sooner she finds that he is Florentine's lover. When Miguel finds Lamberto in his real state, he shoots the trespasser and Lamberto stabs and kills Miguel. Ursula helps Lamberto to flee and they are chased by the police. Ursula becomes his lover and their love ends in tragedy. "Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune" is a silly melodramatic romance by Roger Vadim. I saw this film many years ago on cable television and I have just seen it again on DVD.The plot is absolutely ridiculous, with a terrible story and characters. Brigitte Bardot never convinces as a virgin girl that was raised in a convent and her character is annoyingly hysterical. Stephen Boyd also does not convince as a Spaniard and his wolf character is very unpleasant. The gorgeous Alida Valli has good performance in the role of a repressed woman that falls in an unrequited love with Lamberto, but the poor script does not help her. In addition to Alida Valli, the locations and the beauty and erotic situations of BB are the best that "Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune" can offer, but it is very few to enjoy this film. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Ao Cair da Noite" ("Near Nightfall")

MartinHafer At the outset, you assume the producers of this film were insane. After all, they cast Brigitte Bardot and Stephen Boyd in a film set in Spain. So why have the VERY French Bardot?! Why dub Boyd and have an actor that just doesn't look Spanish?! This is clearly a case where the producers had actors and they were going to force them into a script no matter how ridiculous it was.As for the plot, it isn't much better. Bardot plays a nymphet who has been raised in a convent (despite being VERY sexy and the most un-convent like woman in film history) and comes to live with her guardians--a rich uncle and aunt. In this small town, the uncle is all-powerful--and apparently had abused this position by forcing himself on women. First, his advances resulted in the death of Boyd's sister, then he puts the moves on his niece. As for the niece (Bardot), she is a rather vacuous lady who meets Boyd and INSTANTLY falls in love with him--a bad cliché to say the least. Later, when Boyd kills the uncle, she abandons everything and runs off with him. Now, she is wanted by the police as well--all because of 'love at first sight'--good grief. And, at the 80 minute mark comes a scene that, frankly, made my brain hurt, as Bardot goes bananas and then the two make out like sex-crazed weasels. Wow. You just have to see it.If you completely ignore the plot and casting of actors, the film IS lovely to see. The color cinematography is very nice as is the setting. So, if you can ignore the problems, at least the film looks nice and is a diversion--and nothing more. This is NOT among Bardot's best films--nor is it even among the best looking (that would be "Contempt"). But, if you are a fan of her work or just have to see the dimpled and jug-eared Boyd play a Spaniard, then this film is for you!For a movie with such a nice budget, scenery and stars, it should have been a lot better.

jimi99 In Cinemascope and Technicolor, "The Night Heaven Fell" is spectacular in more ways than one. Vadim takes us across and through some incredible landscapes in Spain, using long shots to great effect. Then there is the spectacle of the virulent cult of bullfighting which comes into the film twice, the brutality of which is emphasized more than its cultural mystique. And that's obviously because this is as much Bardot's film as her husband's, and her evolution into an animal rights activist, which she remains today, is on full display here. Her scenes with the many animals in the film are full of genuine warmth and compassion, and even becomes an important plot point when her runaway outlaw lover wants to kill a piglet so they won't starve in the wilderness.And of course the main spectacle for many (esp. males) is Brigitte Bardot herself, in all her youthful radiant vivacious libidinous glory. I personally had a pre-pubescent crush on her in the late 50's, when this movie came out. Of course I never saw one of her movies back then but photos in magazines, probably Life and Look or my mom's Photoplay. And there was that lobby card on display outside the Avalon theater on 75th street in Houston in '58 advertising "and God...Created Woman," showing the famous shot of Bardot in bed with a sheet just barely covering her not-so-private parts. It was a neighborhood theater that had turned into an "art" (adults only) theater that I walked by regularly, and I did stare at that still photo for a good long time as a 10 year old.I still haven't seen many of her films, but in this film she proves her acting chops and also gets to expose her physical assets on a level American actresses were certainly not able to do, especially in a dramatic film of this caliber. It's kind of funny how Vadim paced the tease of the film for the horny viewer, exposing her incrementally almost like clockwork, culminating in a breast shot as Stephen Boyd falls on her to once again seal their doomed passion.And that's what really raises this above any kind of titillating pulp romance, the authenticity not only of the sets and people, from all the amazing extras to the stars, but of the emotions the two lovers display. Bardot, whom I've lusted after for nearly 50 years, could act like Signoret or Moreau, at least in this film.

Wout Visser (wrvisser-leusden-nl) Although this movie has much to do with the Spanish sense of pride and honor, its real issue is a fierce competition between the beauty of Brigitte Bardot and that of the landscape of Southern Spain. As Bardot's performance is pretty uninspired here, this time the scenery wins. 'Les bijoutiers du clair de lune' makes good watching for its enjoyable shots. As for Bardot, she certainly did better in other movies.