A Very Private Affair
A Very Private Affair (French: Vie privée) is a 1962 French film directed by Louis Malle and starring Brigitte Bardot.[2]
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Directed by | Louis Malle |
Produced by | Christine Gouze-Renal |
Written by | Louis Malle Jean Ferry Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
Starring | Brigitte Bardot Marcello Mastroianni Nicolas Bataille Eléonore Hirt |
Music by | Fiorenzo Carpi |
Cinematography | Henri Dacae |
Distributed by | Pathe Films |
Release date | January 31, 1962 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
Language | French |
Box office | 1,879,668 admissions (France)[1] |
Synopsis
Brigitte Bardot, the French actress/bombshell of the 1960s, stars in this semi-biographical film of her life. Eighteen-year-old Jill enjoys a comfortable upper-class existence with her widowed mother in Switzerland and develops a crush on Fabio, a friend's husband. She heads off to Paris to become a model and dancer. Soon, Jill is discovered by a film producer and made into a huge movie star. The pressures and annoyances of fame take their toll on her and she returns to Switzerland to recuperate. Jill has an affair with the now divorced Fabio. The press continues to hound her, leading to more complications in her private life.
Tagline
- "A new triumph for today's most talked about star!"
Cast
- Brigitte Bardot - Jill
- Marcello Mastroianni - Fabio Rinaldi
- Nicolas Bataille - Edmond
- Jaqueline Doyen - Juliette
- Eléonore Hirt - Cécile (as Eleonore Hirt)
- Ursula Kubler - Carla
- Gregor von Rezzori - Gricha
- Dirk Sanders - Dick
- Paul Sorèze - Maxime (as Paul Soreze)
- Gloria France - Anna
- Isarco Ravaioli
- Antoine Roblot - Alain - a photographer
- Simonetta Simeoni
Reception
According to MGM, records the film lost $128,000.[3]
References
- Box office information for film at Box Office Story
- "NY Times: A Very Private Affair". NY Times.com. Retrieved 2009-03-22.
- The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
External links
- A Very Private Affair on IMDb
- A Very Private Affair at Rotten Tomatoes
- A Very Private Affair at AllMovie