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Godard muddles an already tricky narrative with personal mannerisms and outright irrelevancies. Brigitte Bardot is a sullen enigma as the wife, and Michel Piccoli as the husband is merely opaque. Hollywood's Jack Palance makes the producer seem to be none other than Jack Palance...
Thirty is supposed to be getting along for a nymph. But somehow, when la belle bebe ripened into what in others might be called maturity, the greatest concern of gallant Gauls was whether Brigitte Bardot herself would mind. "She declared to me that she no longer wants to appear nude on the screen," reported one clearly concerned correspondent. "What a shame! At 40, she could still show everything and reassure her contemporaries." Courage, amis. B.B. herself has said: "This fame that I love, that frightens me, I will do anything to keep and deserve...
...France, the post-Bardot girls all seem to be homebodies. Gallic fan magazines pose them indefatigably in décolleté aprons, cooking or warming baby bottles...
Though obviously silly, an August vacation was still chic. At St. Tropez alone, Premier Georges Pompidou, Conductor Herbert von Karajan, Artist Bernard Buffet and Author Franchise Sagan were dining and dancing. Brigitte Bardot arrived, then left when she could not find a maid. There were so many of the young, beautiful people from Paris that the town was being called St. Tropez-des-Près. In Antibes, Pablo Picasso good-humoredly cavorted for tourist cameras at the Restaurant Roger...
...weekend, while Tognazzi is en route to his son's boarding school, lissome Catherine Spaak flags down his car. He gives her and her friends gas for their jalopy, joins them at a beach house where they natter about Sammy Davis Jr., improvise hymns to Brigitte Bardot, and listen to the recorded speeches of Adolf Hitler. During a frenetic weekend, Tognazzi nearly drowns when he goes for a swim after eating raw peppers. He competes in a humiliating Mr. Universe contest against hoods half his age, all to win favor with Spaak-a French actress so dear to Italian...