"Weak"
A Very Private Affair Review
By Christopher Null
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
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