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As famous abroad as Picasso or General de Gaulle,

Brigitte Bardot marked her era

with her overhyped love life

and her incredible photogenic character.

MERRY CHRISTMAS BRIGITTE

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

the real personality of this French sex symbol

and worldwide myth of eroticism

long remained unknown.

THE BARDOT MYSTERY

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

REALIZED BY SOPHIE AGACINSKI AND GILLES NADEAU

Brigitte Bardot is a bit like a French Marylin,

except for the suicide part.

Ahead of her time,

she simply wanted to live life intensely,

without concessions or constraints.

She was a charming small brunette

with a narrow waist,

but...

she was far from what she became later,

from what Vadim made her as an actress.

Brigitte was

the mascot of Match.

She figured on almost all of their covers

starting from 17 years old.

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

AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

FOR THE WORST?

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

An international media explosion,

And God Created Woman consecrated, in 1956,

its director Roger Vadim

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

A very bold movie for this era,

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

The scandal attracted success in France.

In real life, the actress left her husband Roger Vadim

for Jean-Louis Trintignant,

her partner on screen.

It's difficult to be happy.

DANGEROUS?

Hug me tight.

We're both of the same kind.

You can lie, I can't.

Who will dominate her?

Who will understand her?

A MOVIE BY ROGER VADIM

AND GOD CREATED WOMAN

Roger Vadim suddenly created the Bardot myth

and BB became a worldwide sex symbol.

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

and being added to the Vatican's index.

But 17 years later,

France's most famous star left the cinema world

to dedicate herself to animal welfare.

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

said that her first three marriages were failures, as well

as most of her love life.

But let's go back to the start.

After playing along with the press during

the first four years of her stardom,

the young star now seems to neglect her career.

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

Here you are.

What do you think?

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

In December 1956, she confided in François Chalais

who covered her beginnings in the cinema world on TV.

Is it true that

you don't read the scripts you work on?

You read them at the last minute?

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

I read them, of course,

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

I like to do it,

but I often don't read them...

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

Because when I work on a scene ahead of time,

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

In 1957,

BB's partner is Marcel Amont

in The Bride Is Much Too Beautiful.

This movie by Pierre Gaspard-Huit

is a real staging of the actress' assets.

Do you know you are adorable?

Yes sir, you needn't bother.

Excuse me.

She's pretty.

Of course, since it's BB

and BB stands for... Brigitte Bardot.

One day, we were shooting in a castle.

It overlooked the Dordogne, and Brigitte

wasn't shooting yet.

It was a very hot summer day

and she arrived wearing really short shorts and a bustier,

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

We were about to snap the clapboard shut

and the guy was holding it

like this for some time

and it was...

Everyone watched her arrival.

She was Botticelli's Venus

going for a bath.

She radiated such spontaneity, sensuality

and kindness as well.

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

Did you find out all alone?

No, Patrice told me. But he is right.

See, you understand?

I know. It's very difficult to explain, especially

when the bride is much too beautiful.

She was someone

from whom we managed to get interesting artistic things from.

Indeed at first,

Vadim, like Pygmalion, shaped her a certain way

and we expected her to remain that way.

The way she was at first, when she just needed to appear

and say: "Hello."

That was enough

since she was an explosive novelty.

Scene 63, 11th take.

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

a turning point in Brigitte Bardot's career.

She held on in front of Jean Gabin,

a heavyweight in French cinema.

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

And a fake testimony from your friend Gaston...

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

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

And when the police come...

They will, since you live with your friend Noémie.

Follow them calmly and don't mention me.

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

it's Mr. Gobillot.

When you heard you'd shoot with Brigitte Bardot?

I said: "Gladly."

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

I said: "That's not true.

"I'm convinced that she is

"a born actress."

And I was right.

She is talented, her first talent

being that she is beautiful.

Besides her beauty,

BB showed a real talent for comedy in 1959

in Babette Goes to War by Christian-Jacque.

Brigitte, pregnant with Jacques Charrier's child,

experiences a second marriage, heavily covered by the media.

Breaking with tradition, her Vichy wedding dress

rekindled the trend of the famous pattern.

The event of January 1960

that made the headlines worldwide

was that the universal sex symbol

would give birth to a child.

This child would be born in Brigitte's home,

at 71, Avenue Paul Doumer in Paris in the 16th arrondissement.

Seven months pregnant,

she had two months left to prepare for labor.

And the media coverage around this back then was such

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

From the seventh to the ninth month of her pregnancy,

until January 11th 1960,

she was locked in her home,

pacing around, as she said herself,

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

Because I even saw colleagues disguised as nuns

to get some information.

I saw my friends sleeping on the landing of the six floors

in her building.

I saw fake chimney sweeps on the roof

trying to get close to her. So you can imagine the madness

around this woman who experienced one of the most important phases

of her existence

which was taken away from her.

There he is.

Jacques Charrier already knows how to hold him.

JANUARY 15TH 1960

Simply dressed, Nicolas is charming.

A first dialog and Brigitte

smiles at you, as if you were five days old.

NEWS FLASH

In this tense media atmosphere,

dissents in the couple quickly started to show.

Jacques Charrier renounced acting in Purple Noon

to stay with Brigitte during a difficult pregnancy.

However, she ignored her husband's objections

to appear in The Truth by Georges Clouzot

as a promiscuous woman.

Clouzot was very lucky

to get her to be in the movie

since her name made it popular.

Clouzot-Bardot. It was the first time

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

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

But I don't really think I am.

It doesn't impress you?

No, it takes more than that to impress me.

People really scared me when they talked about her.

I think she was also scared.

Yes, we probably were tense when we met,

but it clicked immediately.

"It clicked" is an understatement.

When Georges Clouzot slapped the star twice to prepare her

for a difficult scene,

she slapped him back.

She slapped him back and left the set.

I think it's great.

During the shoot, the inevitable happened.

Brigitte fell in love with Sami Frey.

The press quickly wrote about it.

They were very unfair,

cruel and mean.

I think this woman had the right to love

who she wanted, when she wanted.

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

I wanted to say this because I rarely get the chance

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

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

about me less.

She was adorable with everyone.

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

She was funny and adorable.

She is someone that I respect

and admire, and I think she is great.

Because they weren't nice to her.

Photographers were constantly following her around.

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

BRIGITTE BARDOT WANTED TO DIE

Constantly exposed in the papers,

her marriage with Jacques Charrier shattered.

Brigitte left her husband

and abandoned her son Nicolas who was raised by his father.

Sami Frey left for the army.

Alone on the night of her 26th birthday,

BB cut her veins open

and took many sleeping pills dissolved in champagne.

She fell into a coma.

Two days later,

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

She aroused a lot of jealousy

and malice, deep down.

So with this fragility,

when you are tired, feeling bad and lonely,

you can feel like you want to leave this world

full of vultures, this awful world

that means you harm.

The slap!

The bedroom.

The kiss.

The bathroom.

CONTEMPT

A tragic love story in a marvelous setting.

The only two problems I had with her,

was making her...

wear long skirts.

I didn't succeed,

so most of the time, I either made her wear a robe

or I centered the camera mid-chest.

Because no way, she really cared about her miniskirts.

Right.

And keeping her hair down.

Her huge hairdo is at least 6 inches high.

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

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

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

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

She agreed. So...

I did this.

- Love. - Darkness.

Misunderstandings.

Fatal beauty.

Fatal.

CONTEMPT

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

Jean-Luc Godard's excellent staging

convinced the critics

that BB overflows with talent.

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

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

which is a great movie that I really like.

This one will be her second.

Second good news for Brigitte in 1963:

she met French-Brazilian basketball player Bob Zagury.

I met her right after Contempt.

It was in Saint-Tropez.

My friend Jicky Dussart invited me for dinner.

He said: "Come alone."

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

in a small Fiat 500.

Brigitte was in the back.

We went to Café des Arts.

It went well.

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

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

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

When she did,

I was really impressed by her beauty.

She looked splendid barefaced.

That's when I fell for her.

It lasted three years. To sum it up:

one fantastic and extraordinary year.

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

She could be fantastic sometimes.

She told me herself: "I am bipolar."

She was up and down.

She taught me that term.

When she felt high, she was extraordinary.

When she felt down, it was very difficult.

I loved the woman, physically

and morally. I loved the woman.

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

La Madrague is splendid.

There are always very simple houses.

Very simple and cozy. You feel good there,

they aren't extravagant houses.

Paul Doumer's apartment was very nice

and I loved Bazoches in the countryside.

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

for her and for me.

Brigitte is a great cook.

You won't believe it.

But she was a real housewife, very attached

to her friends, material goods...

She wanted to be loved.

Also through the places she lived in.

Another encounter and the start of a long friendship,

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

who came to live in Saint-Tropez in 1964.

The miraculous story of my encounter with Brigitte Bardot,

we just arrived in Saint-Tropez, unknown,

and we were lucky to have splendid fabrics.

It was in June, it was very hot.

We had opened three weeks before, and I suddenly saw bare feet

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

And she came

with Bob Zagury, a man I really liked.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't remember why,

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

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

She called me the same day in the evening, saying:

"Listen, it can't be this way.

"I like your clothes too much.

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

And the thing with her is that,

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

which was splendid, saying:

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

And inside, six pages were dedicated

to my clothes, since she was very popular.

And suddenly, everyone followed.

A MODEL FOR THE HAIR COUTURIER

That was the Brigitte Bardot era.

She was trending in fashion and everything at once.

All the girls dressed like Brigitte Bardot,

in the Vichy fabric she created, things like this.

Her fate was surprising.

Everybody wanted to know how and where she dressed.

She was more than a movie star.

She was the image of an era in France.

She fascinated everyone.

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

When you mentioned Brigitte Bardot, you mentioned France.

In December 1967,

Brigitte Bardot was invited

to the Élysée Palace by General de Gaulle.

BB, dressed by couturier Jean Bouquin,

caused a sensation in this hussar outfit.

I'd like to remind people that they don't invite simple divorcees

to the Élysée Palace.

Seeing Brigitte arrive with her blonde hair, wearing

a frogged Napoleon hussar jacket didn't go

unnoticed.

And when De Gaulle saw her arrive,

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

"Nice, a soldier."

- Did he mention any movie? - Viva Maria.

He saw it more than once?

I don't know, but he watched it at least once.

Brigitte Bardot's invitation is

a sort of apotheosis

for she who just shot Viva Maria! by Louis Malle in Mexico.

Her vacation in Brazil,

her stay in New York before the shoot

and the friendly confrontation with Jeanne Moreau at the end

of the movie rallied the continent's press.

I wanted a movie with Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau.

I found it very interesting,

at least for my own and personal curiosity,

to make a movie with these two,

who are both sacred actresses,

currently considered as the only two stars.

I think Brigitte is a remarkable actress

and even an extraordinary one. She's exceptional.

Jeanne Moreau, what do you think of Brigitte Bardot?

- Brigitte Bardot... - Watch out, I'm right here.

- I'm not saying anything. - We like

each other and worked hard together

so we really share a bond now.

You know, when you spend four and a half months

in such difficult conditions...

It's like we went to war.

Right, we are military service friends.

Of course, she had her rival, Jeanne Moreau.

It was quite funny

because they both wanted to face the camera.

So they often turned to the camera

and they had to shoot the scene again. It was their game.

We weren't friends, we saw each other on set.

I think we had dinner together once in the three months of shooting.

Another feminine competition in 1971,

much more friendly despite appearances:

Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot

are together in The Legend of Frenchie King by Christian-Jaque.

When they offered me to be in the movie

with her,

it was BB versus CC, the blonde versus the brunette,

all the paparazzi were there.

They were sure we would have a cat fight.

They were disappointed.

I did all the special effects in all of my movies

because I love danger, I never wanted a body double.

And there was a fighting scene.

Brigitte said: "No, I won't do it with you."

Some guy arrived, dressed like her.

I said: "Brigitte, this is ridiculous."

So we trained. I showed her.

"When I do this, you do that." We trained and we did it.

She really was the woman par excellence of the whole world

and I felt like they were taking advantage of her.

And that's why she stopped so early.

She was very young when she stopped acting.

When we went to the premiere of the movie in Champs Élysées,

she called me and told me: "Claudia, let's surprise them again.

"Wear a short skirt, a miniskirt."

She arrived, wearing a tuxedo, looking like a man.

When we arrived at the Champs Élysées, all the photographers were

like this.

Scene 64, first take.

I don't always choose the right movies.

I just follow my heart.

If I like what I read, I go for it.

Sometimes, I'm wrong and sometimes not.

Any normal man would feel troubled.

Brigitte was the least star among the stars

because when she caused a problem, it was because she was

unhappy in her life,

and she cried. So they had to fix her makeup.

But she never had tantrums.

At least in Michel Deville's The Bear and the Doll,

they were never tantrums to annoy us, not at all.

My qualms, these past two years,

weren't very brilliant.

Neither were my movies.

Brigitte's private life

always influenced her professional life.

Constant in friendship,

BB shot three other movies with her first husband.

After shooting Please, Not Now! in 1961,

Roger Vadim shot Love on a Pillow in 1962,

then 11 years later, in 1973,

If Don Juan Were a Woman.

Brigitte watched The Little Soldier

and said she wanted a man in that role.

So that's how it happened.

They always gave Brigitte what she wanted.

She was very professional

and always looked like she didn't really want to act,

which she stopped. She just had to.

At 40 years old, she said: "I'm done." And she really stopped.

There weren't many farewells, just one.

She really stopped

because I think that, in a way, it annoyed her.

When she shot Les Novices with Annie Girardot,

they had to beg her to come back every day.

She wasn't lucky like Sophia Loren who had Carlo Ponti.

The issue with Brigitte is that no one wanted to upset her.

They always told her: "It's OK."

But the issue is that it harms the movie. She said that

Les Novices annoyed her, literally.

"It annoys me,

"let's shoot it tomorrow."

And they said: "It's OK, we won't do it."

That's how it was. So both movies, Please, Not Now!

and Les Novices, were never finished.

And then she called our friend Vadim

for him to finish the movie.

I think he wanted to seduce her back

or maybe just to sleep with her.

He didn't manage, but she had

a weakness for him and worked with him twice.

She couldn't finish the previous movie,

so maybe don't do it again.

But she shot another one. And after Les Novices,

since he didn't manage to seduce her again,

the weekend right after they finished the movie,

he crashed his motorbike into a wall.

Brigitte Bardot acting as Don Juan is quite unexpected.

Why did you accept this role? What seduced you?

He's speaking formally to me now.

Well...

What are you asking exactly?

What seduced you?

What seduced you about this role?

Don Juan did. It had to, since it's Don Juan.

He can only seduce people. So I decided to play it.

Vadim couldn't shoot.

She appeared in a movie about Don Juan that wasn't great.

There was a scene with Birkin, as if it was Lesbos...

So all this was prejudicial.

She shot with people that...

Except for Godard and Clouzot,

that didn't want to upset her.

So it was very easy for her. It was a pity. She needed a push.

She had a lot to give.

You had to assault your victims.

What did I have to do, Vadim?

What I asked her to do.

You often provoked ruckus

by just showing up. Is it still the case?

No, I think I am part of the furniture, now.

Was it a difficult role?

Yes.

It's a nice change.

That's nice for the previous ones.

She said: "I will leave this industry

"the day I am too scared to look at myself in the mirror.

"I don't want to start thinking I am old and ugly."

And she was very nervous.

It's true, she was.

She didn't enjoy acting.

She always wanted to do just one take whenever she could,

because she didn't think

doing it again would make it better.

It bored her.

And I know that... She told me.

I know she decided to stop acting

the day she started wearing hats in Colinot.

It was a medieval trend in some Turkish

and Oriental paintings.

They were hats a bit like those in The Bourgeois Gentleman.

It was beautiful. She was wearing a tall and splendid one.

She saw herself in the mirror and said: "No.

"I can't keep on doing this.

"I can't keep on doing this job and disguising myself.

"I don't want to anymore."

Brigitte Bardot, you gave up acting.

Was it to dedicate yourself to animal welfare?

I gave up acting, but I won't abandon my dogs.

Come on.

No matter the weather

I always have small friends Pricking up their ears

To go on a walk In the Argentinean countryside

The sky is lighter With my dogs by my side

Vishnou, come over here Miel and Nini too

Don't get lost on the way

Are you getting lost my dear Macho

Behave as you should

Ob is crossing the neighbor's field

Brigitte absolutely loved singing.

Acting wasn't her greatest joy,

but being in the studio and singing...

She shot around 40 movies

and recorded around 90 songs.

THE BARDOT SHOW - JANUARY 1968

When I'm on the way and feel

The trembling of the engine

I feel a certain desire

I don't need anyone

On my Harley Davidson

I don't acknowledge anyone

On my Harley Davidson

Gainsbourg came. And it was fantastic.

Here is an example:

the movie Bonnie and Clyde came out.

She told Serge: "I want to do Bonnie and Clyde."

Two days later, the song was written

and two days after that, Matalon set up a studio

with sets and they shot the video. It always went like this.

What haven't they written About us

They pretend we are Cold-blooded killers

It isn't fun, but we must

Keep them silent

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde

We celebrated her birthday

and she painted herself in black.

And something quite funny...

At some point, I mentioned Mijanou.

I said: "You know, your sister is fantastic."

She slapped me.

And she said: "Yes.

"Mijanou tried to sleep with all of my lovers."

So I said: "Look at me one last time, because you won't see me again."

I left. And we got back together.

I opened the newspaper

and saw that Gunter Sachs was dating Brigitte.

He sent her flowers, etc.

Well.

My friend, Philippe d'Exea, lived with her so I asked him

to pack my things.

I went to Avenue Paul Doumer and took my things.

I left to live in Philippe's small studio.

I didn't call her once in 5 months. There were no tears, nothing.

I didn't call her.

After five months, I thought:

"I can go back to Saint-Tropez now."

She came to see me.

She rushed to me and cried: "I'm an idiot."

And in the end, well...

Love is like a path, you can't go backwards.

Bardot's third marriage with international playboy

Gunter Sachs, semi-clandestine in Las Vegas

and celebrated on July 14th, 1966,

was like fireworks.

After the initial illumination,

Brigitte was gradually disillusioned.

Gunter impressed her. They went to the casino

and he got very lucky.

He won the equivalent

of 45,000 euros and bought her jewelry with it.

He just won it.

Then, he wanted to snub her. He sent her flowers by helicopter.

She was living the dream. She thought he was

like a messiah. But he was from a family...

I won't go into details,

but he was one of these guys who come to Saint-Tropez

just to have fun.

He was assertive and she must've been in a moment of weakness.

After two years of the couple living separately

and a marriage full of infidelities,

Brigitte Bardot ended up getting a divorce and being alone.

She partied all the time to get tipsy.

She wanted to make herself tipsy.

She needed the people around her to be happy.

When we went to Bazoches, we were four, five people.

She cooked,

did everything, and it felt like we were family.

But in Saint-Tropez, when there were people like

Barclay and the others, she had to get tipsy.

So she partied non-stop.

She partied a lot with gypsies.

In Bazoches,

there were ducks and hens, it was basically the house...

of Snow White. It was impressive

because she welcomed all the dogs she could.

It was a frantic race to save the animals.

The fish.

Come, let's check on the goats.

In Bazoches, she really was

the BB we loved.

We loved her in Saint-Tropez too,

but she had to get noticed.

While in Bazoches, she was herself. She was different.

I learned how to be able to do without anything.

- How so? - To do without anything.

Nothing is essential to your happiness.

If something feels wrong, you need to let it go.

Like acting.

You need to focus on something else

that will bring you happiness, serenity and joy.

She was very simple and smart.

People say she is a blonde, etc.

But she is very interesting intellectually.

She doesn't say idiocies.

People really crushed her.

Is it pure philosophy?

It is,

but it helps you live a better life.

Brigitte always sparked hate.

It wasn't that she was incredibly famous,

it's that people hated her

because of her sexual freedom and all that.

They made her life hell.

So with the glory, she became a misanthropist.

She didn't go crazy, she became a misanthropist.

She could have everything and all the men she wanted...

Everything. At some point,

it's important to fulfill all of your desires

to cope with life.

Except for Bob Zagury,

I never met

any of her partners

that would take her under their wings and protect her like he did.

She never was protected.

And she didn't want to be.

She was in charge. "Let's go to the restaurant."

She'd refuse if it wasn't her initiative.

She always made the decisions in everything she did.

She didn't let the others have any personality.

She sometimes chose boys that didn't deserve her.

I met many of them.

She called me later, telling me: "I threw him out, come get him.

"He's naked, do something. The photographers are outside."

All these people that I met

went to her for the fame. That's it.

She quickly realized it.

She quickly noticed it.

Because if you're with Bardot, you're on the front covers as well.

Like an exception to this sad series of lovers,

comedian Denis Karvil lived, in 1983,

a short idyll with Brigitte Bardot who was still looking for love.

They met in a restaurant in Saint-Tropez.

I saw that we got along well.

I was very impressed back then. I was quite young.

We called each other three days later

and I went to La Madrague.

Imagine, for a young man...

Brigitte Bardot just stopped acting. It was in the 1980s.

In La Madrague,

it was absolutely exceptional.

I kept on pinching my hand to make sure I wasn't dreaming.

Come on!

I discovered her house

and her dogs. They were setters back then.

There were also cats everywhere.

I didn't know if I was in love with the myth or the woman.

But the results were the same.

I was in love with her and idolized her.

I was touched every time I saw

this adorable side she had.

I wasn't much next to her.

She told me: "Work well," before I left for work.

She placed notes for me

everywhere. In the car's console storage,

on my pillow...

She needed to be in love and to love.

She needed to lean on a man. That's it.

It felt like she was more in love with love than with the men

she was with. But only she knows the answer.

Come.

I think she was a very lonely woman

who didn't like solitude.

She needed her friends.

She had quite a difficult personality.

She often got angry,

but she still needed her friends.

She always called them back to make up.

But yes, she was very lonely.

She even had, according to our friends,

a depressed side.

Brigitte was always merry and optimistic.

But she felt blue sometimes. She went through difficult moments

in her life. It's normal. She is

such a sensitive woman.

She is now defending animal welfare

because she thought human beings weren't great.

We're in front of the Norwegian embassy.

Brigitte is here.

Needless to say the atmosphere is

extraordinary. The appeal Brigitte made yesterday on TF1

during Roger Gicquel's news was largely heard.

It's raining in Paris, but they're here.

They still came, it's great.

Thank you all for coming.

Brigitte and the baby seal

she holds in her arms. That's her favorite picture ever.

This is what a baby seal is.

That's what they kill.

I asked her which picture she'd like people

to remember after her death or that'd be on the paper's cover.

She said it was this picture because...

"It symbolizes my action for animal welfare.

"And the great solitude on the ice field represents my own."

This baby is amazing.

That's it.

They kill them to make stuffed toys

of baby seals

or fur coats for the idiots who want to wear that.

And that's it.

We will get them.

We can't forget that Brigitte got three laws to be voted

in the European Parliament:

about animals being transported, especially horses,

the unbearable conditions

in which the horses were transported from the East to the French

slaughterhouses, stunning the animals before slaughtering them...

She's complaining because it's happening again.

The baby seals and the fur trade...

She was a mom, since she never really wanted to be a mother,

to the animals around the world.

She did great things.

When she denounced how they killed animals in the slaughterhouses,

with the sexuality aspect that is involved...

She dared to say it.

All of the nasty things. We are responsible for this,

we accept to eat meat that is mass produced.

We must admit it's awful. I prefer the hunters

who have a direct link with the animals

rather than us hiding behind people who kill for us

and animals in awful conditions.

So Bardot was perfect for this.

Brigitte Bardot created an animal welfare foundation

and openly criticized

the disinterest of political leaders.

A WOMAN AGAIN

But defending animal welfare isn't enough to fulfill a life.

The announcement of her fourth wedding in 1992

with Bernard d'Ormale, a relative of Front National,

caught the attention of the media.

They met during a party with Jany and J.-Marie Le Pen in Saint-Tropez.

I didn't notice anything

during the meal since we were a dozen people.

But as we left,

we all met in front of the door

and Brigitte was kissing goodbye to everyone.

She did it easily and merrily. The atmosphere was great.

And at the end of the queue

of people waiting to say goodbye to Brigitte Bardot, I saw Bernard

who humbly asked: "What about me?"

She turned around, smiling wide and said:

"You'll also get a kiss."

And I think he was very touched that she would turn around

and talk to him,

especially to tell him something like this.

It's a bit silly, but she kissed him on the cheeks tenderly.

He accompanied her to her car

and I don't know what they told each other,

but the next day, he packed his bags,

went to La Madrague and never left it.

That was 18 years ago.

He shopped for her,

carried her packages,

went to pick her up with his car...

And spontaneously, she must have said:

"The janitor's house is empty. I have no janitor.

"You can live here." So he did.

And gradually, they got closer. I don't know what happened.

He made himself essential.

Since everything annoys and bores her,

she said: "Take care of it."

So he did all these things. Since he had very particular ideas,

he trapped her. She ended up

with people from the far right on some pictures

but that's not her ideas.

She isn't a leftist either, but still.

And so the press started to say harmful things about him.

Brigitte Bardot made the headlines again

for writings that were concordant with the National Front's ideas.

Obsessed with animal welfare,

she denounced, in her memoirs of 1996,

the Muslim ritual and sheep slaughter for Eid al-Adha.

She was sued

by the anti-racism associations.

Sentenced many times for incitement to racial hatred,

Brigitte Bardot was in the dock.

In her latest book,

she pell-mell castigated the Islamization of France,

the diversity, the slaughter of sheep during Eid al-Adha,

the decline of Europe...

She stigmatized "the invasion of those who defile

"and assault our churches,"

referring to the Saint-Bernard occupation in Paris.

A scream in the silence that wounds the anti-racists.

Brigitte Bardot burst into tears as she heard the defense speech.

She said she doesn't incite hatred and only has convictions.

I saw Brigitte again only once.

Back then, the television festival took place in Saint-Tropez.

I don't remember why she came.

I think it was on the last day,

with her husband. She went on stage

for the prize giving, I think.

She was booed and it really hurt me.

I went to greet her after that.

But what can you do? People are like that.

I think there was litigation back then in the press.

She is very unhappy, she isn't well.

People don't respect her.

She fights awful fights.

She wants to change the world. She's right to be Utopian.

But it's very difficult.

For the Muslims to stop killing sheep for Eid al-Adha

and people to stop abandoning animals on the road,

it takes education.

We must teach the youth to respect people,

to respect themselves and the animals.

We must start with ourselves. If you don't respect

your own self, you wouldn't spend time caring for animals.

So she fights an extraordinary fight.

Because it's her passion. She was the only one

and she atoned for it

because she wore the fur that was given to her,

leopard and zebra. I saw her wearing all that fur.

Then, she didn't want it anymore because they killed animals.

She doesn't eat meat, she is a vegetarian.

It's a choice she made and I gladly respect it.

She was very anxious about herself.

Beautiful women don't believe they're beautiful.

Even if people constantly tell them. It's in Plato's Symposium.

Alcibiades says: "Even if he is beautiful,

"he is never beautiful enough."

The more someone

realizes their beauty, the less beautiful they are.

Especially to themselves.

So Bardot always wanted to be reassured.

The Bardot myth, a word that she loathes...

She really hates it. Once, she told me: "Let's stop saying

"I am a myth. I'm a girl just like any other girl.

"I don't want to be buried in Saint-Tropez's marine cemetery

"because I don't want my parents, who are buried there,

"and my good old Vadim

"to suffer the assaults of the crazy people

"who will tag our graves, and create a morbid cult around our names

"and mostly mine.

"So I'm currently preparing to be buried in La Madrague."

That's it.

I don't know if she will manage.

On the abandoned beach

Shells and crustaceans

Who would have thought Regret the end of summer

That left some time ago

She gave La Madrague

to her foundation. She said:

"This isn't my home. This is my animals' home."

But due to fiscal issues, for the continuity

and longevity of her foundation,

she wants to turn La Madrague into a museum.

She said: "This house that isn't a small fisherman house,

"which I decorated and that lies by the sea,

"fascinated the whole world for 50 years.

"At least now, for 10 euros, they can come and visit it.

"And I'll be buried under my olive tree in the garden."

THE BARDOT MYTH A MOVIE BY

MERRY CHRISTMAS BRIGITTE

Rebecca Payet-Hoareau Subtitling: Hiventy