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As famous abroad
as Picasso or General de Gaulle,

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Brigitte Bardot marked her era

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with her overhyped love life

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and her incredible
photogenic character.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS BRIGITTE

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A star at 22 years old
who left the cinema world at 40,

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the real personality
of this French sex symbol

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and worldwide myth of eroticism

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long remained unknown.

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THE BARDOT MYSTERY

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A FILM BY MEI CHEN CHALAIS,
SOPHIE AGACINSKI AND GILLES NADEAU

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REALIZED BY
SOPHIE AGACINSKI AND GILLES NADEAU

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Brigitte Bardot is a bit
like a French Marylin,

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except for the suicide part.

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Ahead of her time,

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she simply wanted
to live life intensely,

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without concessions or constraints.

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She was a charming small brunette

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with a narrow waist,

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but...

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she was far
from what she became later,

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from what Vadim made her
as an actress.

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Brigitte was

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the mascot of Match.

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She figured on almost
all of their covers

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starting from 17 years old.

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She wasn't known at all
and Vadim made her famous.

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AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

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FOR THE WORST?

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Juliette Christiane Hardy,
will you have this man to be...

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An international media explosion,

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And God Created Woman
consecrated, in 1956,

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its director Roger Vadim

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and its star put all the actresses
before her out of fashion.

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A very bold movie for this era,

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it shows Brigitte Bardot cheating
on her husband on her wedding night.

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The scandal attracted
success in France.

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In real life, the actress left
her husband Roger Vadim

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for Jean-Louis Trintignant,

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her partner on screen.

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It's difficult to be happy.

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DANGEROUS?

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Hug me tight.

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We're both of the same kind.

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You can lie, I can't.

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Who will dominate her?

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Who will understand her?

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A MOVIE BY ROGER VADIM

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AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

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{\an5}Roger Vadim suddenly created
the Bardot myth

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{\an5}and BB became
a worldwide sex symbol.

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Her success led her to a presentation
in the High Court of England

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and being added
to the Vatican's index.

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But 17 years later,

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France's most famous star left
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to dedicate herself
to animal welfare.

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Later on, she, who was celebrated
as the world's most beautiful woman,

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said that her first three marriages
were failures, as well

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as most of her love life.

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But let's go back to the start.

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After playing along
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the first four years of her stardom,

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the young star now seems
to neglect her career.

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She tries to protect
a quite lively private life in vain.

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Here you are.

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What do you think?

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I think you'd have to be
abnormal to not like it.

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In December 1956,
she confided in François Chalais

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who covered her beginnings
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Is it true that

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you don't read the scripts
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You read them at the last minute?

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- That is...
- So it is true?

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I read them, of course,

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because I find it funny
to know what the story is about.

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I like to do it,

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but I often don't read them...

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Well, I read them right before
shooting, not before that.

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Because when I work
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I don't act really well
and lose my spontaneity.

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In 1957,

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BB's partner is Marcel Amont

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in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful.

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This movie by Pierre Gaspard-Huit

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is a real staging
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Do you know you are adorable?

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Yes sir, you needn't bother.

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Excuse me.

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She's pretty.

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Of course, since it's BB

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and BB stands for... Brigitte Bardot.

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{\an5}One day, we were shooting
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It overlooked the Dordogne,
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wasn't shooting yet.

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It was a very hot summer day

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and she arrived wearing
really short shorts and a bustier,

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with a towel under her arm
to take a bath in the Dordogne river.

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We were about to snap
the clapboard shut

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and the guy was holding it

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like this for some time

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and it was...

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Everyone watched her arrival.

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She was Botticelli's Venus

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going for a bath.

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She radiated
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and kindness as well.

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You have to believe me, Michel.
I love you.

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Did you find out all alone?

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No, Patrice told me. But he is right.

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See, you understand?

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I know. It's very difficult
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when the bride is much too beautiful.

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She was someone

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from whom we managed to get
interesting artistic things from.

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Indeed at first,

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Vadim, like Pygmalion,
shaped her a certain way

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and we expected her
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The way she was at first,
when she just needed to appear

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and say: "Hello."

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That was enough

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since she was an explosive novelty.

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Scene 63, 11th take.

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In 1958, In Case of Adversity
by Claude Autant-Lara was

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a turning point
in Brigitte Bardot's career.

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She held on in front of Jean Gabin,

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a heavyweight in French cinema.

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No, I don't deal
with that type of case anymore.

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And a fake testimony
from your friend Gaston...

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No, we can trust him.
He isn't a false witness.

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Now, just go back to your hotel.
Pretend nothing happened.

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And when the police come...

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They will, since you live
with your friend Noémie.

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Follow them calmly
and don't mention me.

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And when they'll ask
if you have a lawyer, tell them...

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it's Mr. Gobillot.

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When you heard you'd shoot
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I said: "Gladly."

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People told me: "You'll see,
she isn't that good."

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{\an5}I said: "That's not true.

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{\an5}"I'm convinced that she is

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"a born actress."

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And I was right.

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She is talented, her first talent

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being that she is beautiful.

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Besides her beauty,

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BB showed a real talent
for comedy in 1959

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{\an5}in Babette Goes to War
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{\an5}Brigitte, pregnant
with Jacques Charrier's child,

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experiences a second marriage,
heavily covered by the media.

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Breaking with tradition,
her Vichy wedding dress

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rekindled the trend
of the famous pattern.

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The event of January 1960

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{\an5}that made the headlines worldwide

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{\an5}was that the universal sex symbol

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would give birth to a child.

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This child would be born
in Brigitte's home,

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at 71, Avenue Paul Doumer
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Seven months pregnant,

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she had two months left
to prepare for labor.

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And the media coverage
around this back then was such

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that 180 to 200 reporters came
from all over the world.

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From the seventh to the ninth month
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until January 11th 1960,

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she was locked in her home,

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pacing around, as she said herself,

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in her living room and bedroom,
her shutters closed. Why?

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Because I even saw colleagues
disguised as nuns

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to get some information.

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I saw my friends sleeping
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in her building.

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I saw fake chimney sweeps
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trying to get close to her.
So you can imagine the madness

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around this woman who experienced
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of her existence

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which was taken away from her.

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There he is.

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{\an5}Jacques Charrier already knows
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{\an5}JANUARY 15TH 1960

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{\an5}Simply dressed, Nicolas is charming.

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A first dialog and Brigitte

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smiles at you,
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NEWS FLASH

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In this tense media atmosphere,

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dissents in the couple
quickly started to show.

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Jacques Charrier renounced
acting in Purple Noon

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to stay with Brigitte
during a difficult pregnancy.

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However, she ignored
her husband's objections

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to appear in The Truth
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as a promiscuous woman.

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{\an5}Clouzot was very lucky

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{\an5}to get her to be in the movie

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{\an5}since her name made it popular.

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Clouzot-Bardot. It was the first time

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a director's name was
as big as the star's.

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I'm glad to be a myth, if I am one.

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But I don't really think I am.

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It doesn't impress you?

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No, it takes more than that
to impress me.

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People really scared me
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I think she was also scared.

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{\an5}Yes, we probably were tense
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{\an5}but it clicked immediately.

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"It clicked" is an understatement.

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When Georges Clouzot slapped
the star twice to prepare her

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for a difficult scene,

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she slapped him back.

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She slapped him back
and left the set.

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I think it's great.

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During the shoot,
the inevitable happened.

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Brigitte fell in love with Sami Frey.

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The press quickly wrote about it.

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They were very unfair,

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cruel and mean.

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I think this woman had
the right to love

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who she wanted, when she wanted.

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When they don't have anything
to say about me, they invent things.

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I wanted to say this
because I rarely get the chance

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to say what I think.
It always goes through a newspaper.

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So I wanted to say one thing:
I wish they talked

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about me less.

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She was adorable with everyone.

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She didn't have any tantrums,
didn't behave like a star.

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She was funny and adorable.

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She is someone that I respect

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and admire, and I think she is great.

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Because they weren't nice to her.

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Photographers were
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So at some point...
Just let her live her life.

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BRIGITTE BARDOT WANTED TO DIE

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Constantly exposed in the papers,

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her marriage
with Jacques Charrier shattered.

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Brigitte left her husband

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and abandoned her son Nicolas
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Sami Frey left for the army.

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Alone on the night
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BB cut her veins open

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and took many sleeping pills
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She fell into a coma.

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Two days later,

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treated like she was crazy,
she woke up in a straitjacket.

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She aroused a lot of jealousy

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and malice, deep down.

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So with this fragility,

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when you are tired,
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you can feel
like you want to leave this world

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full of vultures, this awful world

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that means you harm.

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The slap!

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The bedroom.

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The kiss.

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The bathroom.

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CONTEMPT

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A tragic love story
in a marvelous setting.

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The only two problems I had with her,

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was making her...

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wear long skirts.

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I didn't succeed,

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{\an5}so most of the time,
I either made her wear a robe

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{\an5}or I centered the camera mid-chest.

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Because no way, she really cared
about her miniskirts.

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Right.

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And keeping her hair down.

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Her huge hairdo is
at least 6 inches high.

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I said:
"If I walk on my hands for 6 feet...

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"Well, would you accept
to take your hair down by one inch

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"for every foot that I walk
on my hands?"

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She said:
"I accept, since you can't do it."

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She agreed. So...

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I did this.

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- Love.
- Darkness.

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Misunderstandings.

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Fatal beauty.

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Fatal.

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CONTEMPT

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After the success of
In Case of Adversity and The Truth,

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Jean-Luc Godard's excellent staging

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convinced the critics

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that BB overflows with talent.

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Do you think she played
in a lot of great movies?

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No, I think there was only one:
And God Created Woman,

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which is a great movie
that I really like.

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This one will be her second.

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Second good news
for Brigitte in 1963:

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she met French-Brazilian
basketball player Bob Zagury.

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I met her right after Contempt.

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{\an5}It was in Saint-Tropez.

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{\an5}My friend Jicky Dussart
invited me for dinner.

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{\an5}He said: "Come alone."

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I did. He picked me up
with his wife, Anne,

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in a small Fiat 500.

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Brigitte was in the back.

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We went to Café des Arts.

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It went well.

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She was wearing a lot of makeup,
so after 30 minutes

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I told her: "Brigitte,
be nice and go upstairs.

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"Wash your face and come back
without any makeup on."

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When she did,

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I was really impressed by her beauty.

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She looked splendid barefaced.

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That's when I fell for her.

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It lasted three years. To sum it up:

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one fantastic and extraordinary year.

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One year that wasn't so bad,
and one last year that was difficult.

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She could be fantastic sometimes.

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She told me herself: "I am bipolar."

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She was up and down.

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She taught me that term.

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When she felt high,
she was extraordinary.

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When she felt down,
it was very difficult.

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I loved the woman, physically

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and morally. I loved the woman.

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I didn't love Brigitte Bardot,
I loved her sincerely.

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La Madrague is splendid.

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There are always very simple houses.

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Very simple and cozy.
You feel good there,

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they aren't extravagant houses.

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Paul Doumer's apartment was very nice

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and I loved Bazoches
in the countryside.

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It's very secluded. We lived
with the animals, it was nice

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for her and for me.

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Brigitte is a great cook.

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You won't believe it.

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But she was a real housewife,
very attached

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to her friends, material goods...

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She wanted to be loved.

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Also through the places she lived in.

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Another encounter
and the start of a long friendship,

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Brigitte Bardot met a young couturier
full of ideas: Jean Bouquin,

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who came to live in Saint-Tropez
in 1964.

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The miraculous story
of my encounter with Brigitte Bardot,

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we just arrived
in Saint-Tropez, unknown,

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and we were lucky
to have splendid fabrics.

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It was in June, it was very hot.

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{\an5}We had opened three weeks before,
and I suddenly saw bare feet

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{\an5}in front of me and recognized her.
I said: "It's Brigitte."

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And she came

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with Bob Zagury,
a man I really liked.

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I didn't know him,
but he was a great basketball player.

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She came and told me:
"I like it, I heard about you."

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She took a lot of clothes with her
so we wrote everything down.

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She said: "I'll send my chauffeur
to bring back what I won't keep."

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I said: "Gladly, ma'am."
And noted it down.

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I don't remember why,

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but she got my phone number
since we didn't have

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any business cards yet.
We didn't have much back then.

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00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:30,040
She called me the same day
in the evening, saying:

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"Listen, it can't be this way.

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"I like your clothes too much.

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"Would you like to come over
and create a collection?"

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00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,040
And the thing with her is that,

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in October the same year,
she was on the cover of Elle

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which was splendid, saying:

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"I held in my hands all the clothes
of couturier Jean Bouquin."

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And inside, six pages were dedicated

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to my clothes,
since she was very popular.

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And suddenly, everyone followed.

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A MODEL FOR THE HAIR COUTURIER

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That was the Brigitte Bardot era.

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{\an5}She was trending in fashion
and everything at once.

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00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,920
{\an5}All the girls dressed
like Brigitte Bardot,

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{\an5}in the Vichy fabric she created,
things like this.

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Her fate was surprising.

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00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,000
Everybody wanted to know
how and where she dressed.

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00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,480
She was more than a movie star.

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She was the image
of an era in France.

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She fascinated everyone.

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She was like a queen of France,
in a way.

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00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,120
When you mentioned Brigitte Bardot,
you mentioned France.

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00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,960
In December 1967,

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Brigitte Bardot was invited

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to the Élysée Palace
by General de Gaulle.

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BB, dressed by couturier
Jean Bouquin,

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caused a sensation
in this hussar outfit.

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00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,520
{\an5}I'd like to remind people that
they don't invite simple divorcees

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00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,400
{\an5}to the Élysée Palace.

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00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:24,920
Seeing Brigitte arrive
with her blonde hair, wearing

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a frogged Napoleon hussar jacket
didn't go

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unnoticed.

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00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,320
And when De Gaulle saw her arrive,

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he greeted her and bowed, of course.
He said:

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"Nice, a soldier."

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00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:41,200
- Did he mention any movie?
- Viva Maria.

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00:20:41,360 --> 00:20:42,440
He saw it more than once?

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00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,440
I don't know,
but he watched it at least once.

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00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,760
Brigitte Bardot's invitation is

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00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,560
a sort of apotheosis

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00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:55,000
for she who just shot Viva Maria!
by Louis Malle in Mexico.

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00:20:57,680 --> 00:20:59,080
Her vacation in Brazil,

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00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,560
her stay in New York before the shoot

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and the friendly confrontation
with Jeanne Moreau at the end

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00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,680
of the movie rallied
the continent's press.

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00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,600
I wanted a movie with Brigitte Bardot
and Jeanne Moreau.

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00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,880
I found it very interesting,

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00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,920
at least for my own
and personal curiosity,

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00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,960
to make a movie with these two,

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who are both sacred actresses,

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00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,640
currently considered
as the only two stars.

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00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,280
I think Brigitte is
a remarkable actress

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00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,800
and even an extraordinary one.
She's exceptional.

402
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:46,880
Jeanne Moreau,
what do you think of Brigitte Bardot?

403
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,760
- Brigitte Bardot...
- Watch out, I'm right here.

404
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,480
- I'm not saying anything.
- We like

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00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,440
each other and worked hard together

406
00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,080
so we really share a bond now.

407
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,760
You know, when you spend
four and a half months

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00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,520
in such difficult conditions...

409
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,040
It's like we went to war.

410
00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,800
Right, we are
military service friends.

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00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,360
{\an5}Of course, she had her rival,
Jeanne Moreau.

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00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:17,200
{\an5}It was quite funny

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00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,600
{\an5}because they both wanted
to face the camera.

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00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,480
So they often turned to the camera

415
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,840
and they had to shoot
the scene again. It was their game.

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00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,640
We weren't friends,
we saw each other on set.

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00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,360
I think we had dinner together
once in the three months of shooting.

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00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,040
Another feminine competition in 1971,

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00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,200
much more friendly
despite appearances:

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00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,160
Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot

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{\an5}are together in The Legend
of Frenchie King by Christian-Jaque.

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00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,160
When they offered me to be
in the movie

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00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:58,560
{\an5}with her,

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00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,080
{\an5}it was BB versus CC,
the blonde versus the brunette,

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00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:03,840
{\an5}all the paparazzi were there.

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00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,360
They were sure
we would have a cat fight.

427
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,280
They were disappointed.

428
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,160
I did all the special effects
in all of my movies

429
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,040
because I love danger,
I never wanted a body double.

430
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,320
And there was a fighting scene.

431
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,320
Brigitte said:
"No, I won't do it with you."

432
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,360
Some guy arrived, dressed like her.

433
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,720
I said:
"Brigitte, this is ridiculous."

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00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,880
So we trained. I showed her.

435
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,960
"When I do this, you do that."
We trained and we did it.

436
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:56,480
She really was the woman
par excellence of the whole world

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00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,960
and I felt like they were
taking advantage of her.

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00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:05,640
And that's why she stopped so early.

439
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,720
She was very young
when she stopped acting.

440
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:15,720
When we went to the premiere
of the movie in Champs Élysées,

441
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,080
she called me and told me:
"Claudia, let's surprise them again.

442
00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,520
"Wear a short skirt, a miniskirt."

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00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,600
She arrived, wearing a tuxedo,
looking like a man.

444
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,400
When we arrived at the Champs
Élysées, all the photographers were

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00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:33,160
like this.

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Scene 64, first take.

447
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,240
I don't always choose
the right movies.

448
00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:45,480
{\an5}I just follow my heart.

449
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,840
If I like what I read, I go for it.

450
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,120
Sometimes, I'm wrong
and sometimes not.

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00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,520
Any normal man would feel troubled.

452
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,040
{\an5}Brigitte was the least star
among the stars

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00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,600
{\an5}because when she caused
a problem, it was because she was

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00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,560
{\an5}unhappy in her life,

455
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:14,000
and she cried. So they had
to fix her makeup.

456
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:15,760
But she never had tantrums.

457
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,920
At least in Michel Deville's
The Bear and the Doll,

458
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,560
they were never tantrums
to annoy us, not at all.

459
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,560
My qualms, these past two years,

460
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,640
weren't very brilliant.

461
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,040
Neither were my movies.

462
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,760
Brigitte's private life

463
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,000
always influenced
her professional life.

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00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:37,760
Constant in friendship,

465
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,520
BB shot three other movies
with her first husband.

466
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,120
After shooting
Please, Not Now! in 1961,

467
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,760
Roger Vadim shot
Love on a Pillow in 1962,

468
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,240
then 11 years later, in 1973,

469
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,520
If Don Juan Were a Woman.

470
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,600
Brigitte watched The Little Soldier

471
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,560
and said she wanted
a man in that role.

472
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,720
So that's how it happened.

473
00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:05,240
They always gave Brigitte
what she wanted.

474
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,560
She was very professional

475
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,760
and always looked like
she didn't really want to act,

476
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:15,280
which she stopped. She just had to.

477
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,520
At 40 years old, she said:
"I'm done." And she really stopped.

478
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:22,200
There weren't
many farewells, just one.

479
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:23,680
She really stopped

480
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,280
because I think that,
in a way, it annoyed her.

481
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:41,640
When she shot Les Novices
with Annie Girardot,

482
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,320
they had to beg her
to come back every day.

483
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,160
She wasn't lucky like
Sophia Loren who had Carlo Ponti.

484
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,640
The issue with Brigitte is that
no one wanted to upset her.

485
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,040
They always told her: "It's OK."

486
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,200
{\an5}But the issue is that
it harms the movie. She said that

487
00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:00,600
{\an5}Les Novices annoyed her, literally.

488
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:01,760
{\an5}"It annoys me,

489
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,760
{\an5}"let's shoot it tomorrow."

490
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,200
And they said: "It's OK,
we won't do it."

491
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:10,280
That's how it was.
So both movies, Please, Not Now!

492
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,680
and Les Novices, were never finished.

493
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,840
And then she called our friend Vadim

494
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,120
for him to finish the movie.

495
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,680
I think he wanted to seduce her back

496
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,600
or maybe just to sleep with her.

497
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,040
He didn't manage, but she had

498
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,760
a weakness for him
and worked with him twice.

499
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,800
She couldn't finish
the previous movie,

500
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,720
so maybe don't do it again.

501
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,400
But she shot another one.
And after Les Novices,

502
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,440
since he didn't manage
to seduce her again,

503
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,040
the weekend
right after they finished the movie,

504
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:43,800
he crashed his motorbike into a wall.

505
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:47,880
Brigitte Bardot acting as Don Juan
is quite unexpected.

506
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,680
Why did you accept this role?
What seduced you?

507
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,520
He's speaking formally to me now.

508
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:56,800
Well...

509
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,400
What are you asking exactly?

510
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:01,560
What seduced you?

511
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,520
What seduced you about this role?

512
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,920
Don Juan did.
It had to, since it's Don Juan.

513
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,160
He can only seduce people.
So I decided to play it.

514
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:12,520
Vadim couldn't shoot.

515
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,840
She appeared in a movie
about Don Juan that wasn't great.

516
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:20,080
There was a scene with Birkin,
as if it was Lesbos...

517
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,840
So all this was prejudicial.

518
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,280
She shot with people that...

519
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,400
Except for Godard and Clouzot,

520
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,200
that didn't want to upset her.

521
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:33,640
So it was very easy for her.
It was a pity. She needed a push.

522
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:35,520
She had a lot to give.

523
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,280
You had to assault your victims.

524
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,120
What did I have to do, Vadim?

525
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,760
What I asked her to do.

526
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,440
You often provoked ruckus

527
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,880
by just showing up.
Is it still the case?

528
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,880
No, I think I am
part of the furniture, now.

529
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:55,840
Was it a difficult role?

530
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:56,840
Yes.

531
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,640
It's a nice change.

532
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,320
That's nice for the previous ones.

533
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,400
{\an5}She said: "I will leave this industry

534
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,000
{\an5}"the day I am too scared
to look at myself in the mirror.

535
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,520
{\an5}"I don't want to start thinking
I am old and ugly."

536
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,600
And she was very nervous.

537
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,560
It's true, she was.

538
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,240
She didn't enjoy acting.

539
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,000
She always wanted to do just one take
whenever she could,

540
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,040
because she didn't think

541
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,200
doing it again would make it better.

542
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,600
It bored her.

543
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,600
And I know that... She told me.

544
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,880
I know she decided to stop acting

545
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,240
the day she started wearing
hats in Colinot.

546
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,240
It was a medieval trend
in some Turkish

547
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:51,800
and Oriental paintings.

548
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,440
They were hats a bit like those
in The Bourgeois Gentleman.

549
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,680
It was beautiful. She was wearing
a tall and splendid one.

550
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,240
{\an5}She saw herself
in the mirror and said: "No.

551
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,240
{\an5}"I can't keep on doing this.

552
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,800
{\an5}"I can't keep on doing
this job and disguising myself.

553
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:12,960
"I don't want to anymore."

554
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,000
Brigitte Bardot, you gave up acting.

555
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,000
Was it to dedicate yourself
to animal welfare?

556
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,560
I gave up acting,
but I won't abandon my dogs.

557
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,440
Come on.

558
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,720
No matter the weather

559
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,320
I always have small friends
Pricking up their ears

560
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,440
To go on a walk
In the Argentinean countryside

561
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:52,000
The sky is lighter
With my dogs by my side

562
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,240
Vishnou, come over here
Miel and Nini too

563
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,520
Don't get lost on the way

564
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,760
{\an5}Are you getting lost my dear Macho

565
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,920
{\an5}Behave as you should

566
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,360
{\an5}Ob is crossing the neighbor's field

567
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,600
Brigitte absolutely loved singing.

568
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,680
Acting wasn't her greatest joy,

569
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:18,240
{\an5}but being in the studio
and singing...

570
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,200
She shot around 40 movies

571
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,320
and recorded around 90 songs.

572
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,640
{\an5}THE BARDOT SHOW - JANUARY 1968

573
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,960
{\an5}When I'm on the way and feel

574
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,960
The trembling of the engine

575
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,600
I feel a certain desire

576
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,600
I don't need anyone

577
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,920
On my Harley Davidson

578
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,200
I don't acknowledge anyone

579
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,440
On my Harley Davidson

580
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,760
{\an5}Gainsbourg came.
And it was fantastic.

581
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,280
{\an5}Here is an example:

582
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,800
the movie Bonnie and Clyde came out.

583
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,000
She told Serge:
"I want to do Bonnie and Clyde."

584
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,200
Two days later, the song was written

585
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,920
and two days after that,
Matalon set up a studio

586
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,640
with sets and they shot the video.
It always went like this.

587
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,600
What haven't they written
About us

588
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:29,840
They pretend we are
Cold-blooded killers

589
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,720
It isn't fun, but we must

590
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,040
Keep them silent

591
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,080
Bonnie and Clyde

592
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,800
Bonnie and Clyde

593
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,680
We celebrated her birthday

594
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,600
and she painted herself in black.

595
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,720
And something quite funny...

596
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,240
At some point, I mentioned Mijanou.

597
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,200
I said:
"You know, your sister is fantastic."

598
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,640
She slapped me.

599
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,280
And she said: "Yes.

600
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,600
"Mijanou tried to sleep
with all of my lovers."

601
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,920
So I said: "Look at me one last time,
because you won't see me again."

602
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,600
I left. And we got back together.

603
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,240
I opened the newspaper

604
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,440
and saw that Gunter Sachs
was dating Brigitte.

605
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,680
He sent her flowers, etc.

606
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:36,680
Well.

607
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,800
My friend, Philippe d'Exea,
lived with her so I asked him

608
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,360
to pack my things.

609
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,840
I went to Avenue Paul Doumer
and took my things.

610
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,680
I left to live
in Philippe's small studio.

611
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,240
I didn't call her once in 5 months.
There were no tears, nothing.

612
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,080
I didn't call her.

613
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,840
After five months, I thought:

614
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,080
"I can go back to Saint-Tropez now."

615
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:03,920
She came to see me.

616
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:09,080
She rushed to me and cried:
"I'm an idiot."

617
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,360
And in the end, well...

618
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,320
Love is like a path,
you can't go backwards.

619
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,880
Bardot's third marriage
with international playboy

620
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,680
Gunter Sachs,
semi-clandestine in Las Vegas

621
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,440
and celebrated on July 14th, 1966,

622
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,560
was like fireworks.

623
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,840
After the initial illumination,

624
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,840
Brigitte was gradually disillusioned.

625
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,080
Gunter impressed her.
They went to the casino

626
00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:38,800
{\an5}and he got very lucky.

627
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,320
{\an5}He won the equivalent

628
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,400
{\an5}of 45,000 euros and bought her
jewelry with it.

629
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:44,880
{\an5}He just won it.

630
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,680
Then, he wanted to snub her.
He sent her flowers by helicopter.

631
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,360
She was living the dream.
She thought he was

632
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:54,680
like a messiah.
But he was from a family...

633
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,440
I won't go into details,

634
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:01,280
but he was one of these guys
who come to Saint-Tropez

635
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,120
just to have fun.

636
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,520
He was assertive and she must've been
in a moment of weakness.

637
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,560
After two years
of the couple living separately

638
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,320
and a marriage full of infidelities,

639
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,720
Brigitte Bardot ended up getting
a divorce and being alone.

640
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,560
She partied all the time
to get tipsy.

641
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,360
She wanted to make herself tipsy.

642
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,160
She needed the people
around her to be happy.

643
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,080
When we went to Bazoches,
we were four, five people.

644
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,200
She cooked,

645
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,960
did everything,
and it felt like we were family.

646
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,040
But in Saint-Tropez,
when there were people like

647
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,520
Barclay and the others,
she had to get tipsy.

648
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,200
So she partied non-stop.

649
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,320
She partied a lot with gypsies.

650
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:57,080
{\an5}In Bazoches,

651
00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:01,120
{\an5}there were ducks and hens,
it was basically the house...

652
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,440
{\an5}of Snow White. It was impressive

653
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,200
because she welcomed
all the dogs she could.

654
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,160
It was a frantic race
to save the animals.

655
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,240
The fish.

656
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:22,560
Come, let's check on the goats.

657
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:24,120
In Bazoches, she really was

658
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,680
the BB we loved.

659
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,520
We loved her in Saint-Tropez too,

660
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,000
but she had to get noticed.

661
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,440
While in Bazoches, she was herself.
She was different.

662
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,200
I learned how to be able
to do without anything.

663
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,000
- How so?
- To do without anything.

664
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:45,560
Nothing is essential
to your happiness.

665
00:36:45,720 --> 00:36:49,120
If something feels wrong,
you need to let it go.

666
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:50,640
Like acting.

667
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,160
You need to focus on something else

668
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,680
that will bring you happiness,
serenity and joy.

669
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,080
She was very simple and smart.

670
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:02,520
People say she is a blonde, etc.

671
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,680
But she is
very interesting intellectually.

672
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,320
She doesn't say idiocies.

673
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,960
People really crushed her.

674
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,080
Is it pure philosophy?

675
00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:17,480
It is,

676
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,840
but it helps you live a better life.

677
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,440
{\an5}Brigitte always sparked hate.

678
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,520
{\an5}It wasn't that she was
incredibly famous,

679
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,680
{\an5}it's that people hated her

680
00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:32,960
because of her sexual freedom
and all that.

681
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,880
They made her life hell.

682
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,600
So with the glory,
she became a misanthropist.

683
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,800
She didn't go crazy,
she became a misanthropist.

684
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,320
She could have everything
and all the men she wanted...

685
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,000
Everything. At some point,

686
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,560
it's important to fulfill
all of your desires

687
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:54,880
to cope with life.

688
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,920
Except for Bob Zagury,

689
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,920
I never met

690
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,120
any of her partners

691
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,720
{\an5}that would take her under their wings
and protect her like he did.

692
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,280
{\an5}She never was protected.

693
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,160
{\an5}And she didn't want to be.

694
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,840
{\an5}She was in charge.
"Let's go to the restaurant."

695
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,920
She'd refuse
if it wasn't her initiative.

696
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,080
She always made the decisions
in everything she did.

697
00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:22,640
She didn't let the others
have any personality.

698
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,920
She sometimes chose boys
that didn't deserve her.

699
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:28,280
I met many of them.

700
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,720
She called me later, telling me:
"I threw him out, come get him.

701
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,600
"He's naked, do something.
The photographers are outside."

702
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,440
All these people that I met

703
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,400
went to her for the fame. That's it.

704
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,440
She quickly realized it.

705
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,440
She quickly noticed it.

706
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,720
Because if you're with Bardot,
you're on the front covers as well.

707
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:53,040
Like an exception
to this sad series of lovers,

708
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,440
comedian Denis Karvil lived, in 1983,

709
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,920
a short idyll with Brigitte Bardot
who was still looking for love.

710
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,320
They met in a restaurant
in Saint-Tropez.

711
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,600
I saw that we got along well.

712
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,960
I was very impressed back then.
I was quite young.

713
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:16,240
We called each other three days later

714
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,440
and I went to La Madrague.

715
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,440
Imagine, for a young man...

716
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:27,480
Brigitte Bardot just stopped acting.
It was in the 1980s.

717
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,040
In La Madrague,

718
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,200
it was absolutely exceptional.

719
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,040
I kept on pinching my hand
to make sure I wasn't dreaming.

720
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:41,720
Come on!

721
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,440
I discovered her house

722
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,560
and her dogs.
They were setters back then.

723
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:49,760
There were also cats everywhere.

724
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,480
I didn't know if I was in love
with the myth or the woman.

725
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,000
But the results were the same.

726
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:02,680
I was in love with her
and idolized her.

727
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,520
I was touched every time I saw

728
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,480
this adorable side she had.

729
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,560
I wasn't much next to her.

730
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,760
She told me: "Work well,"
before I left for work.

731
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,760
She placed notes for me

732
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,880
everywhere.
In the car's console storage,

733
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,080
on my pillow...

734
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:28,880
She needed to be in love and to love.

735
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,960
She needed to lean on a man.
That's it.

736
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,480
It felt like she was more in love
with love than with the men

737
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,520
she was with.
But only she knows the answer.

738
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,800
Come.

739
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,240
I think she was a very lonely woman

740
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,000
who didn't like solitude.

741
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,400
She needed her friends.

742
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,480
She had
quite a difficult personality.

743
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,520
She often got angry,

744
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:05,000
but she still needed her friends.

745
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,520
She always called them back
to make up.

746
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,960
But yes, she was very lonely.

747
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,720
She even had,
according to our friends,

748
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:17,880
a depressed side.

749
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:25,240
Brigitte was always merry
and optimistic.

750
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,960
But she felt blue sometimes.
She went through difficult moments

751
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,480
{\an5}in her life. It's normal. She is

752
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,240
{\an5}such a sensitive woman.

753
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,920
She is now defending animal welfare

754
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,680
because she thought
human beings weren't great.

755
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,800
{\an5}We're in front
of the Norwegian embassy.

756
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:46,160
{\an5}Brigitte is here.

757
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,280
{\an5}Needless to say the atmosphere is

758
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,480
{\an5}extraordinary. The appeal
Brigitte made yesterday on TF1

759
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,400
{\an5}during Roger Gicquel's news
was largely heard.

760
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,480
It's raining in Paris,
but they're here.

761
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,720
They still came, it's great.

762
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,280
Thank you all for coming.

763
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,280
Brigitte and the baby seal

764
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,560
she holds in her arms.
That's her favorite picture ever.

765
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,680
This is what a baby seal is.

766
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,080
That's what they kill.

767
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,920
{\an5}I asked her which picture
she'd like people

768
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,600
{\an5}to remember after her death
or that'd be on the paper's cover.

769
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:21,120
She said it was
this picture because...

770
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,880
"It symbolizes
my action for animal welfare.

771
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:32,200
"And the great solitude on the ice
field represents my own."

772
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,400
This baby is amazing.

773
00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:37,280
That's it.

774
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,240
They kill them to make stuffed toys

775
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,240
of baby seals

776
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,240
or fur coats for the idiots
who want to wear that.

777
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:47,600
And that's it.

778
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,000
We will get them.

779
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,400
We can't forget that
Brigitte got three laws to be voted

780
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,080
in the European Parliament:

781
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,520
about animals being transported,
especially horses,

782
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,120
the unbearable conditions

783
00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,760
in which the horses were transported
from the East to the French

784
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:16,960
slaughterhouses, stunning the animals
before slaughtering them...

785
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,360
She's complaining
because it's happening again.

786
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,600
The baby seals and the fur trade...

787
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,640
She was a mom, since she never
really wanted to be a mother,

788
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,320
to the animals around the world.

789
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,040
She did great things.

790
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,400
When she denounced how they killed
animals in the slaughterhouses,

791
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,880
with the sexuality aspect
that is involved...

792
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:46,680
She dared to say it.

793
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,600
All of the nasty things.
We are responsible for this,

794
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:55,280
we accept to eat meat
that is mass produced.

795
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,160
We must admit it's awful.
I prefer the hunters

796
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,360
who have a direct link
with the animals

797
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,040
rather than us hiding behind people
who kill for us

798
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:05,600
and animals in awful conditions.

799
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,360
So Bardot was perfect for this.

800
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:14,920
Brigitte Bardot created
an animal welfare foundation

801
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:16,280
and openly criticized

802
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,760
the disinterest of political leaders.

803
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,280
A WOMAN AGAIN

804
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,440
But defending animal welfare
isn't enough to fulfill a life.

805
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,520
The announcement
of her fourth wedding in 1992

806
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,560
with Bernard d'Ormale,
a relative of Front National,

807
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:31,920
caught the attention of the media.

808
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,880
They met during a party with Jany
and J.-Marie Le Pen in Saint-Tropez.

809
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,800
{\an5}I didn't notice anything

810
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,400
{\an5}during the meal since we were
a dozen people.

811
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,680
But as we left,

812
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,080
we all met in front of the door

813
00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,400
and Brigitte was kissing goodbye
to everyone.

814
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,760
She did it easily and merrily.
The atmosphere was great.

815
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,880
And at the end of the queue

816
00:44:57,040 --> 00:45:00,560
of people waiting to say goodbye
to Brigitte Bardot, I saw Bernard

817
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:02,960
who humbly asked: "What about me?"

818
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,600
She turned around,
smiling wide and said:

819
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:07,200
"You'll also get a kiss."

820
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,080
And I think he was very touched
that she would turn around

821
00:45:12,240 --> 00:45:14,120
and talk to him,

822
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,520
especially to tell him
something like this.

823
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:22,040
It's a bit silly, but she kissed him
on the cheeks tenderly.

824
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:24,800
He accompanied her to her car

825
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,360
and I don't know
what they told each other,

826
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,080
but the next day, he packed his bags,

827
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:35,440
went to La Madrague
and never left it.

828
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:36,520
That was 18 years ago.

829
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,160
He shopped for her,

830
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,240
{\an5}carried her packages,

831
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,440
{\an5}went to pick her up with his car...

832
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,640
{\an5}And spontaneously,
she must have said:

833
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,520
"The janitor's house is empty.
I have no janitor.

834
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,840
"You can live here." So he did.

835
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:59,440
And gradually, they got closer.
I don't know what happened.

836
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,600
He made himself essential.

837
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,640
Since everything annoys
and bores her,

838
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,120
she said: "Take care of it."

839
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:15,760
So he did all these things.
Since he had very particular ideas,

840
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,040
he trapped her. She ended up

841
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,880
with people from the far right
on some pictures

842
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,480
but that's not her ideas.

843
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,400
She isn't
a leftist either, but still.

844
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,680
And so the press started
to say harmful things about him.

845
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,720
Brigitte Bardot
made the headlines again

846
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,160
for writings that were concordant
with the National Front's ideas.

847
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,600
Obsessed with animal welfare,

848
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,440
she denounced,
in her memoirs of 1996,

849
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,760
the Muslim ritual
and sheep slaughter for Eid al-Adha.

850
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,600
She was sued

851
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,440
by the anti-racism associations.

852
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,680
Sentenced many times
for incitement to racial hatred,

853
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,040
Brigitte Bardot was in the dock.

854
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,360
In her latest book,

855
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,080
she pell-mell castigated
the Islamization of France,

856
00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:02,400
the diversity, the slaughter of sheep
during Eid al-Adha,

857
00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,080
the decline of Europe...

858
00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:06,720
She stigmatized "the invasion
of those who defile

859
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,240
"and assault our churches,"

860
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,560
referring to the Saint-Bernard
occupation in Paris.

861
00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:14,480
A scream in the silence
that wounds the anti-racists.

862
00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:18,640
Brigitte Bardot burst into tears
as she heard the defense speech.

863
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,360
She said she doesn't incite hatred
and only has convictions.

864
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,440
I saw Brigitte again only once.

865
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:29,800
Back then, the television festival
took place in Saint-Tropez.

866
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,560
I don't remember why she came.

867
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:37,120
I think it was on the last day,

868
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,120
with her husband. She went on stage

869
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,760
for the prize giving, I think.

870
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,360
She was booed and it really hurt me.

871
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,240
I went to greet her after that.

872
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,040
But what can you do?
People are like that.

873
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,680
I think there was litigation
back then in the press.

874
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,400
She is very unhappy, she isn't well.

875
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,560
People don't respect her.

876
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:06,960
She fights awful fights.

877
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,920
She wants to change the world.
She's right to be Utopian.

878
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,160
But it's very difficult.

879
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:17,600
For the Muslims to stop killing
sheep for Eid al-Adha

880
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,560
and people to stop abandoning
animals on the road,

881
00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:22,160
it takes education.

882
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:27,680
We must teach the youth
to respect people,

883
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,600
to respect themselves
and the animals.

884
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,160
We must start with ourselves.
If you don't respect

885
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,000
your own self, you wouldn't spend
time caring for animals.

886
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,400
So she fights an extraordinary fight.

887
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,160
Because it's her passion.
She was the only one

888
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:42,920
and she atoned for it

889
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:46,040
because she wore the fur
that was given to her,

890
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,560
leopard and zebra.
I saw her wearing all that fur.

891
00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:52,880
Then, she didn't want it anymore
because they killed animals.

892
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,720
She doesn't eat meat,
she is a vegetarian.

893
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,240
It's a choice she made
and I gladly respect it.

894
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,440
She was very anxious about herself.

895
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,920
Beautiful women don't believe
they're beautiful.

896
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:16,160
{\an5}Even if people constantly tell them.
It's in Plato's Symposium.

897
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:21,600
{\an5}Alcibiades says:
"Even if he is beautiful,

898
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:23,800
"he is never beautiful enough."

899
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:25,560
The more someone

900
00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:29,200
realizes their beauty,
the less beautiful they are.

901
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,680
Especially to themselves.

902
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:36,680
So Bardot always wanted
to be reassured.

903
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:44,080
The Bardot myth,
a word that she loathes...

904
00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:47,600
She really hates it.
Once, she told me: "Let's stop saying

905
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,760
"I am a myth. I'm a girl
just like any other girl.

906
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,720
{\an5}"I don't want to be buried
in Saint-Tropez's marine cemetery

907
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,920
{\an5}"because I don't want my parents,
who are buried there,

908
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,200
"and my good old Vadim

909
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:06,160
"to suffer the assaults
of the crazy people

910
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:11,000
"who will tag our graves, and create
a morbid cult around our names

911
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:12,760
"and mostly mine.

912
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,240
"So I'm currently preparing
to be buried in La Madrague."

913
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:17,760
That's it.

914
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,040
I don't know if she will manage.

915
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,720
On the abandoned beach

916
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:26,960
Shells and crustaceans

917
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,720
Who would have thought
Regret the end of summer

918
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,240
That left some time ago

919
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,760
She gave La Madrague

920
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,800
to her foundation. She said:

921
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,480
"This isn't my home.
This is my animals' home."

922
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,840
But due to fiscal issues,
for the continuity

923
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,440
and longevity of her foundation,

924
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,680
she wants to turn
La Madrague into a museum.

925
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:56,760
She said: "This house that isn't
a small fisherman house,

926
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,760
"which I decorated
and that lies by the sea,

927
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:01,960
"fascinated the whole world
for 50 years.

928
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,520
"At least now, for 10 euros,
they can come and visit it.

929
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,520
"And I'll be buried
under my olive tree in the garden."

930
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,560
THE BARDOT MYTH
A MOVIE BY

931
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,840
MERRY CHRISTMAS BRIGITTE

932
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,040
Rebecca Payet-Hoareau
Subtitling: Hiventy