Don Juan 73 (1973)

Don Juan 73: Directed by Roger Vadim. With Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carrière, Michèle Sand. A modern-day Don Juan-styled woman, who prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms, reveals to a priest the murder she has committed and honestly details her past sexual encounters.

“Brigitte Bardot must have had a very strong personality to make u0026quot;and God created womanu0026quot; the smash hit it was at the end of the fifties.Vadim/Bardot,itu0026#39;s Pygmalion in reverse :an actress who had un petit je ne sais quoi who created the worst director of the whole nouvelle vague.Vadim made half a dozen of movies with BB,each one lousier than the one before.This one takes the biscuit:not only a good cast is wasted (Robert Hossein,Matthieu Carrière,Maurice Ronet,Jane Birkin)but most of the time ,the movie and BBu0026#39;s lines are unintentionally funny:how can we take seriously this priest ,BBu0026#39;s cousin?the macho Hossein and his wife who discovers Sapphic pleasures with Jeanne/Don Juan?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne cannot even call this farce u0026quot;womanu0026#39;s libu0026quot; because Jeanne is chastised for having been a bad gal,like the true Don Juan.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNB:Itu0026#39;s BB last real film;afterwards,she was to appear in a small part in u0026quot;lu0026#39;histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot Trousse-Chemiseu0026quot;(1973),which, in spite of its title ,was neither u0026quot;très bonneu0026quot; nor u0026quot;très joyeuseu0026quot;.Then it was silence.Outside Garbo ,thereu0026#39;s no other example of an actress ,still young (BB was 39),who calls it quits at such an early age.She became an animal rights activist -and still is-.”