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The Girl in the Bikini

By Lightbox Film Center at University of the Arts (other events)

Saturday, January 28 2023 7:00 PM 9:00 PM EDT
 
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This second film appearance of Brigitte Bardot did not arrive on our shores until six years after its production. By then, “B.B.” was the world’s biggest sex symbol, making international headlines after the success of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman. In 1952, Bardot was just 18 years old and taking all of her career direction from Vadim, then her fiancé. In this early role, she projects what the New York Times called, “a fetching winsomeness and innocence.” The simple plot concerns a young law student (Jean-François Calvé) who partners with a cigarette smuggler to search for ancient treasure spotted off the coast of Corsica on a previous visit—but the boy’s real motive might be to again find the pretty lighthouse keeper’s daughter (Bardot) who swims daily off of the rocks. (Willy Rozier, France, 1952, 86 min.) Dubbed in English

Lightbox Film Center at University of the Arts