Posts Tagged ‘Brigitte Bardot’
Marilyn Monroe to grace the posters of Cannes 2012
Believe it or not, it has been 50 years since the gorgeously talented and sexy Marilyn Monroe passed away. To commemorate her life, and recognise the 50th anniversary of her death, the 2012 Cannes film festival has decided to choose her as the icon for this year's event. Most people will know that Marilyn Monroe is without a...
Love on a Pillow – review
Love on a Pillow was the fourth and final film that Roger Vadim made with Brigitte Bardot. Together they had created the uniquely French sex symbol that was Bardot in the 1956 movie And God Created Woman and with this slightly eccentric feature they said their cinematic farewell. The story goes that Vadim first saw Bardot on the cover...
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) gives Serge Gainsbourg a heroic life
I went into Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) knowing next to nothing about the man and came out knowing just a little more, but having fallen utterly in love with Serge and also with Paris and its old school sense of celebrity, which no longer exists. The film by Joann Sfar is an adaptation of a graphic novel about the legendary and complex...
