{"id":14066,"date":"2023-06-27T20:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=14066"},"modified":"2023-09-22T23:45:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T23:45:21","slug":"bardot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/bardot\/","title":{"rendered":"BARDOT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BARDOT<\/h1>\n

Season 1<\/em><\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1692714664772{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere<\/span><\/strong> | TV Series | France | 2023 | Biopic, Drama | 6 x 52 min | Complete season 1 presented in 2 parts | In French with English subtitles
\nDirected by<\/strong>: Dani\u00e8le and Christopher Thompson
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Dani\u00e8le and Christopher Thompson
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Pascal Breton and Judith Rochelois (Federation Studios), G-Films, Mediaset S.p.A
\nCinematography<\/strong>:\u00a0Michel Amathieu
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Catherine Schwartz, Emmanuel J\u00e9go, Cl\u00e9mence Samson
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Arthur Simonini
\nCast<\/strong>: Julia de Nunez (Brigitte Bardot), Hyppolite Girardot (Pilou Bardot), G\u00e9raldine Pailhas (Toty Bardot), Victor Belmondo (Roger Vadim), Yvan Attal (Raoul L\u00e9vy), Anne Le Ny (Olga Horstig), Noham Edge (Jean-Louis Trintignant), Lou Gable (Mijanou Bardot), Laurent Stocker (Pierre Lazareff)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: Federation Studios
\nOriginal Broadcast<\/strong>: France 2, May 2023<\/p>\n

Fresh-faced newcomer Julia de Nunez brings the iconic Brigitte Bardot to visceral, plaintive life in her very first screen performance, opposite the equally charismatic Victor Belmondo (Jean-Paul’s grandson), who plays writer\/director Roger Vadim. Touting an all-star French cast, the six-episode biopic series traces the life of the ’50s “French bombshell,” from her first audition at 15, through her explosive international breakout in Vadim’s risqu\u00e9 1957 …And God Created Woman<\/em>, to her powerful performance in Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Truth<\/em> in 1960. Bardot is more than a myth in her native country \u2014 “sex kitten,” Marianne (the national personification of liberty), unrelenting animal rights activist, and what Simone de Beauvoir called “the most liberated woman in post-war France,” all rolled into one. And de Nunez indeed manages to evoke all that with grace, poise and apparent ease in this post-WWII Pygmalion story in which a sheltered bourgeois teen-age girl ignites a veritable sexual revolution in France.<\/p>\n

Bardot<\/strong><\/em> is clearly a family affair. Co-creators, co-writers and co-directors, Dani\u00e8le and Christopher Thompson<\/strong> have been working together for 23 years. Dani\u00e8le, herself, began her career as the extremely successful co-writer of a string of monumental French comedy hits co-written and directed by her father, G\u00e9rard Oury, including La Grande Vadrouille<\/em> (1966) and The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob<\/em> (1973). Her other writing credits include Jean-Charles Tacchella’s Oscar-nominated Cousin Cousine<\/em> (1975), Claude P\u00efnoteau’s The Party<\/em> (1980), and Patrice Ch\u00e9reau’s Queen Margot<\/em> (1994) and Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train<\/em> (1998). In 1999, Dani\u00e8le Thompson moved into the director’s chair, now co-writing her scripts with her son Christopher, whose acting credits stretch back to 1989. Their joint credits include The Log<\/em> (1999), Jet Lag<\/em> (2002), Orchestra Seats<\/em> (2006), It Happened in Saint-Tropez<\/em> (COLCOA 2013) and Cezanne et Moi<\/em> (2016). Bardot<\/strong> had its world premiere at the Series Mania Festival in Lille in March 2023. The entire first season will close the TAFFF 2023 Series Competition, in its North American Premiere screening.<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1695426319269{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] BARDOT Season 1 [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1692714664772{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere | TV Series | France | 2023 | Biopic, Drama | 6 x 52 min | Complete season 1 presented in 2 parts | In French with English subtitles Directed by: Dani\u00e8le and Christopher Thompson Written by: Dani\u00e8le […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14066","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14721,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14066\/revisions\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}