The Female (1959 film)
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| French | La femme et le pantin |
| Directed by | Julien Duvivier |
| Adaptation by | Julien Duvivier Marcel Achard Albert Valentin Jean Aurenche |
| Dialogue by | Marcel Achard |
| Based on | La Femme et le pantin[1] by Pierre Louÿs |
| Produced by | Christine Gouze-Rénal Fred Surin |
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| Cinematography | Roger Hubert |
| Edited by | Jacqueline Sadoul |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
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| Language | French |
| Box office | 2,453,892 admissions (France)[4] |
The Female (French: La femme et le pantin, lit. 'The Woman and the Puppet', Italian: Femmina), released in the United Kingdom and the Philippines as A Woman Like Satan, is a 1959 drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It is the fourth film adaptation of the 1898 novel La femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs. The film stars Brigitte Bardot and António Vilar, with Darío Moreno.
Premise
[edit]Mateo Diaz is a wealthy gentleman who loves and respects his wife but no longer finds her attractive because she is paralysed. He pursues Eva Marchand but she does not respond to his advances.
Cast
[edit]- Brigitte Bardot as Éva Marchand
- António Vilar as Don Mateo Diaz
- Lila Kedrova as Manuela
- Daniel Ivernel as Berthier
- Darío Moreno as Arbadajian
- Jacques Mauclair as Stanislas Marchand
- Jess Hahn as Sidney
Production
[edit]Brigitte Bardot wrote in her autobiography that although the crew would call director Julien Duvivier "Dudu", the set was not harmonious. She also described the difficulty of filming in the heat of Seville during the Seville Fair.[5]
See also
[edit]- The Woman and the Puppet (1920)
- The Woman and the Puppet (1929)
- The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
References
[edit]- ^ "La Femme et le pantin von Pierre Louÿs (e-book download)". Retrieved 12 February 2011.
- ^ "A Woman Like Satan de Julien Duvivier". Unifrance. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ "La femme et le pantin [Femmina] (1959)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano (in Italian). Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ Soyer, Renaud (9 March 2014). "La femme et le pantin – Box Office Brigitte Bardot 1959". Box Office Story (in French). Archived from the original on 21 October 2017.
- ^ Extrait de ses mémoires, Initiales BB, Éditions Grasset, Paris, 1996, ISBN 2-246-52601-9
External links
[edit]- The Female at IMDb
- 1959 films
- 1959 drama films
- 1950s French films
- 1950s French-language films
- 1950s Italian films
- Films based on French novels
- Films based on works by Pierre Louÿs
- Films directed by Julien Duvivier
- Films scored by Jean Wiener
- Films shot in Spain
- Films with screenplays by Jean Aurenche
- French drama films
- French-language Italian films
- Italian drama films