Word: bardots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gutsy Bardot. As Kundry in Parsifal, Mezzo Soprano Dalis came close to fulfilling Wieland Wagner's concept of the character as ''a neurotic in the first act. Brigitte Bardot in the second, and a hospital nurse in the third." Dalis has a theory that she can catch Kundry's tempestuous passions more effectively if she does not vocalize before going onstage, thus retaining a certain gutsy quality in her voice. Last week her theory worked just fine: the voice had a raw, fitfully feverish cast, but it never became ugly or strident. Tenor Thomas was less...
...girl vintage looks promising. It has some of the heavy and full-bodied characteristics of the '52s and '57s (Monroe, Bardot), a hint of the dry classicism of certain '37s (Vivien Leigh), and may even show some of the sparkling ambition of the '53s (Grace Kelly). Sample tastes...
...beachwear, is an outfit of very low-slung slacks combined with a bolero. The slacks are ankle-tight around the hips and finger-tight around the ankles. They start below the waistline, and thus have earned a special euphemism among English-speaking tourists: the BB look, not for Brigitte Bardot, but for belly button...
...Truth (Hans Films; Kingsley-lnternational) is a half-serious attempt to make a wholly serious film starring Brigitte Bardot. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot succeeds for the most part in keeping his drama sober, although now and then he throws in a few peepshots for the skin trade. But his effort to be earnest has unstrung the tautness with which he filmed Diabolique and Wages of Fear. For its last half hour, Truth is as limp as old lettuce...
...thoroughly French. That is to say, all of its important scenes take place in restaurants or automobiles. There was a time when all important scenes in French movies took place in bedrooms, but in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic this is no longer true-except for Brigitte Bardot films, and Brigitte, of course, is only for tourists. The most important cars are a forceful but overstated Facel-Vega in which Yves Montand takes Ingrid Bergman for drives, and a giddy Triumph roadster in which Anthony Perkins takes Ingrid for drives. The starring restaurant, to which Perkins takes Ingrid...