La Ronde (AKA Circle of Love, 1964), a series of sexual encounters. Each character figures in two consecutive encounters with different people. Structurally clever, light and amusing. Jane Fonda's best movies were all made with Roger Vadim.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/la-ronde-circle-of-love-1964.html
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62 years ago:
Please, Not Now! (IT,FR)
Original title: La Bride sur le cou
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
1961-04-19
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/65009
#PleaseNotNow #RogerVadim #BrigitteBardot #MireilleDarc #MichelSubor #ClassicMovies
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65 years ago:
The Night Heaven Fell (FR,IT)
Original title: Les bijoutiers du clair de lune
Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the count. She falls in love with Lambert, the killer of her uncle.
1958-04-05
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/66967
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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“That girl is made to destroy men.”
Curd Jürgens in And God Created Woman
#andgodcreatedwoman #vadim #rogervadim #curdjurgens
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Roger Vadim's Love on a Pillow (1962) is a psycho-sexual melodrama starring Brigitte Bardot. It deals with freedom versus responsibility, free love versus marriage.
This is Bardot in a more serious complex role (moving away from her early romantic comedies) and she's superb. Great movie.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2011/07/love-on-pillow-1962.html
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#26gennaio A Parigi era #NatoOggi nel 1928 il regista #RogerVadim dirige la terza moglie Jane Fonda in Metzengerstein, primo episodio di #TrePassiNelDelirio
https://www.desordre.it/desordre/2019/12/tre-passi-nel-delirio.html
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A Parigi era #NatoOggi nel 1928 il regista #RogerVadim dirige la terza moglie Jane Fonda in Metzengerstein, primo episodio di #TrePassiNelDelirio https://www.desordre.it/desordre/2019/12/tre-passi-nel-delirio.html
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Futures Vedettes AKA School for Love AKA Sweet Sixteen (1955) is an early Brigitte Bardot romantic melodrama co-written by Roger Vadim. There are a few comic touches but it’s always romance that takes centre stage. It can also be seen as a coming-of-age movie.
The main reason for seeing this movie today is of course Bardot. but it's a pretty good movie.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/10/futures-vedettes-1955.html
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Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's Love on a Pillow (1962). AKA Warrior's Rest, original title Le repos du guerrier.
A weird fascinating slightly surreal but extremely good movie.
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Roger Vadim's Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971). Written by Gene Roddenberry. Yes, the Star Trek guy. A totally outrageous movie that managed to alienate almost everybody at the time.
As an outrageous and demented black comedy/sex comedy it works in its own delirious way.
A great cast - Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, Roddy McDowall.
My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2021/01/pretty-maids-all-in-row-1971.html
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Brigitte Bardot made some decidedly quirky movies that often don’t fit neatly into genre pigeonholes. Initially Roger Vadim's The Night Heaven Fell (1958) seems like it’s going to be a fairly light-hearted romance. It soon takes a much darker turn.
Extremely interesting offbeat movie. Highly recommended.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-night-heaven-fell-1958.html
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