La vérité
A liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.
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"French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot occasionally alternated her standard titillating vehicles with films of greater substance (though, invariably, she was still required to shed her clothes!) often helmed by a top name within her native cinema – notable examples being Claude Autant-Lara's LOVE IS MY PROFESSION (1958), Julien Duvivier's THE WOMAN AND THE PUPPET (1959; the only one I have not watched, since it seems not to be available in an English-friendly version – but, of course, I am familiar with the three other adaptations of the Pierre Louys source material, as well as owning the..."
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot pushed his actors and actresses so hard - Sami Frey and Jacques Perrin were about to hit him in the face and threatened to walk off the production if he didn't stop yelling at his actors - that Brigitte Bardot tried to commit suicide after the shooting. She was too much implicated, involved in the Dominique character. She also said that this movie was the only one in her career which she was really proud of.
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A liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.