A Very Private Affair - Movie Review

Rating: 2 out of 5

In A Very Private Affair, Brigitte Bardot gets to basically play herself, an overacting, overstacked blonde goddess who just can't take it any more when the pressures of celebrity get to her. Her performance is just short of a tragedy, and the plot is saccharine, asking us to feel sorry for the plight of her movie starlet when the paparazzi flock to her country place after word surfaces about her "very private" affair with an older man. When press light a bonfire in your yard to keep warm and helicopters hover right over your roof, sure, you should get upset. But in that case reality will have dissolved completely, so why worry?

Aka Vie privée.

Facts and Figures

Year: 1961

Run time: 103 mins

In Theaters: Friday 28th September 1962

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 2 / 5

IMDB: 5.6 / 10

Cast & Crew

Director: Louis Malle

Producer: Jacques Bar, Christine Gouze-Rénal

Screenwriter: Jean Ferry, Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Starring: Brigitte Bardot as Jill, Marcello Mastroianni as Fabio Rinaldi, Dirk Sanders as Dick, Jacqueline Doyen as Juliette, Eléonore Hirt as Cecile, Gloria France as Anna

Also starring: Nicolas Bataille, Jacques Bar, Jean Ferry, Louis Malle, Jean-Paul Rappeneau