When we are first introduced to bardot's character,her charm doesn't get through because,first she's chewing gum & then she plans a robbery that ends up in her hitting an older lady on the head and face.
But when she gets to see a lawyer played by gabin and seduces him,we get seduced also by her character,at least for a little while.
Because you see,bardot is a free spirit that not only was selling drugs and sleeping around but that seems to want to have a relationship with both gabin et her old boyfriend.
Gabin is not always all that sympathetic of a character either.
He doesn't hesitate to bend or cheat the law to save bardot.
He hurts his wife mentally by having an affair and at first doesn't care that bardot is not a one man woman.
This film has a certain famous reputation for having been censored and the 2 second scene featuring bardot lefting her skirt exposing her backside(gabin apparently sees the lower front but we don't) is available on the french DVD.
It's hard to understand what the fuss was all about since past the 90 minutes,we also see bardot's butt in a slightly longer scene which wasn't censored.
While the old boyfriend has an obsession with bardot and isn't such a good character, nothing indicated that his jalousy would push him to commit a crime.
Yes,the film does indeed end with a sad conclusion which probably results in the film having a more powerful impact.
This black & white film is way too long. At first,you feel that everything is wrapped up in about the first 30 minutes & that the rest of the film was written afterwards.
Perhaps because i first saw bardot in pictures about ten years after this one,i'm more attracted to her older version in her less older films.
So in conclusion,this remains an interesting film but a very uneven one also.
But when she gets to see a lawyer played by gabin and seduces him,we get seduced also by her character,at least for a little while.
Because you see,bardot is a free spirit that not only was selling drugs and sleeping around but that seems to want to have a relationship with both gabin et her old boyfriend.
Gabin is not always all that sympathetic of a character either.
He doesn't hesitate to bend or cheat the law to save bardot.
He hurts his wife mentally by having an affair and at first doesn't care that bardot is not a one man woman.
This film has a certain famous reputation for having been censored and the 2 second scene featuring bardot lefting her skirt exposing her backside(gabin apparently sees the lower front but we don't) is available on the french DVD.
It's hard to understand what the fuss was all about since past the 90 minutes,we also see bardot's butt in a slightly longer scene which wasn't censored.
While the old boyfriend has an obsession with bardot and isn't such a good character, nothing indicated that his jalousy would push him to commit a crime.
Yes,the film does indeed end with a sad conclusion which probably results in the film having a more powerful impact.
This black & white film is way too long. At first,you feel that everything is wrapped up in about the first 30 minutes & that the rest of the film was written afterwards.
Perhaps because i first saw bardot in pictures about ten years after this one,i'm more attracted to her older version in her less older films.
So in conclusion,this remains an interesting film but a very uneven one also.