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Divine B.B.: Brigitte Bardot

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A magnificent collection of Brigitte Bardot video-clips from the 60's and 70's. Most of Bardot's French TV shows are on this DVD, except for some other great appearances that she did for French TV, such as "La fille de paille" (1969) and "Vous ma Lady" (duo with Laurent Vergez, 1973).
This DVD has good quality picture, although the colors are a bit on the faded side. The menu is done very simply and there is not much work put into it. This is a great piece on the art of French seduction; each song has Bardot in different outfits and parading through many scenes portraying the "free spirit" of the women of the 60's, among whom Bardot was a pioneer and trend-setter. If you watch the 1968 Bardot Show on this DVD, you can see that her look is exactly the same as you see in fashion magazines and TV today. Bardot was definitely "the real thing" - she was gorgeous, free, careless, authentic, anti-star, natural, divine and unique. Anything else coming out of Hollywood in the past 30 years has been merely a poor imitation of Brigitte Bardot.....I highly recommend this DVD for Bardot fans and for anybody who is interested in getting to know the sexiest woman of the last 100 years...VIVA LA BARDOT!!!
Antonio Saavedra, CANADA

This is a great document on sixties french pop. It features Brigitte Bardot on her TV music specials from 1961, 1963 & 1968. The whole dvd is music videos!!! The best footage is from the Brigitte Bardot Show in 1968 on her duets with Serge Gainsbourg on Comic Strip and Bonnie and Clyde. It also has the making of the '68 show. Brigitte is soooo sexy! Very essential!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought this disc from Amazon France several months back. This fantastic collection of music videos is a must for any Brigitte Bardot fan. Highly recommended. I especially love the videos from the 1968 French TV special, Brigitte Bardot Show.

It's finally out: all the Brigitte Bardot music videos. There was nothing of the diva in Bardot's voice and it's doubtful she would even make it past the audition stage of "American Idol." But it was French and it was sexy (enough to elicit the excited Gomez Addams response - "'Tish speak French to me! Ooo la la" when people heard it) and it helped soundtrack the 1960s with its kitschy easy listening flavor and pure pop melodies.

The gem of this two-hour, 35-song collection from a Quebec, Canada subsidiary of Universal is the 1968 French television special "Le Show Bardot," which includes her sexy duets with Serge Gainsbourg on "Comic Strip" and "Bonnie and Clyde" as well as the iconic "Harley Davidson" and the trippily futuristic "Contact." This special was previously available only as a Region 2 DVD import or bootleg tape. The DVD also includes three previously unreleased titles, "La Bis Aux Hippies," "Stanislas," and the instrumental "On The Sunny Side Of The Street," the latter featuring Brigitte strumming a guitar while dressed as a top hat-toting jazz dandy.

The quality isn't great, but it isn't bad either, and is probably as good as one can expect since the source material is PAL. According to Mondo-ditgital.com's review, "Universal's DVD relies on the quality of the surviving material, which features some obvious film-related flaws. The 1967 special was shot on 16mm and edited roughly in a few spots, so the problems really couldn't be corrected without altering the entire texture of the piece. Colors look milder than they probably should, but the presentation still far outclasses any other out there." And while the setup menu offers English subtitles, I could only get them to work on "Faces of Paris," a 1968 documentary about the making of Le Show Bardot. Whatever. (Who listens to the Divine B.B.'s pop ditties for the lyrics, anyway?)

A bunch of B.B.'s movies were recently released in a DVD box set collection, but this is the Bardot collection to have because, other than Roger Vadim's "Et Dieu...Crea la Femme" (A"nd God Created Woman") and Jean-Luc Godard's "Le Mepris" ("Contempt") (notable for the gratuitous, tacked-on nudity in the opening scene), Bardot's movies are pretty crappy and this is the best way to enjoy her magic. That is, until they finally release her masterpieces, "En Cas du Malheur" (1958) or Clouzot's "La Verite" (1960) stateside.

This DVD is packed with 3 music specials and they will not disappoint if you are a fan of bardot or even just genuine fun. the music videos are sometimes campy, someimes hilarious- always entertaining. it is totally worth it.

Ce dvd est un enchantement de bout en bout. Le charme et la presence de BB restent aussi envoutants apres toutes ces annees.

IF YOU LOVE BARDOT, THEN LISTEN TO HER SING IN THIS WONDERFUL VIDEO IF YOU CAN FIND ONE STILL AVAILABLE TO BUY!

Divine B.B.
This is vintage Bardot. Filmed during her golden years. We usually do not get to hear her sing much in her movies. She is a cabaret singer in Doctor at Sea in which she sings and acts totally in English. The scenes of Paris are beautiful, as are the views of Bardot in St. Tropez. Unlike other reviewers I think her acting is excellent although many of the films she is in are dubbed so its hard to tell whether the acting is good or not. It is hard to consider her anything but a top actress after seeing Le Mepris for drama or A Parisiene for comedy. She described herself as a comic actress. Many of the songs are wonderful, the videos are great and she actually does lots of facial and physical comedy. It would be nice to see her superb dancing. She does dance in a number of films like And God Created Woman and Mamzelle Pigalle.
The really annoying thing about this DVD is that nothing is subtitled except a short piece at the end called Faces of Paris. The subtitling is of a dubbed voice. I would have preferred to do without the dubbed voice and had the whole dvd optionally subtitled. It is well worth getting this music dvd of Bardot.
More annoying still is that so many of Bardot's films are still not out commercially.
Bravo televised a 3 hour documentary of Brigitte Bardot back in the 1980s which unfortunately has not been commercially released.

I received this DVD in perfect looking condition and expected it
to play without any problems because it was new and in a sealed
wrapper. I was very surprised to find that all dvd players report

" DISK ERROR, UNPLAYABLE "

I dug out my foreign "PAL" player and it plays. I did not see any
notice of this dvd being in "PAL" only format.

The video is a good overview of her singing and dancing talents.
She is a very talented woman and her beauty adds to the video.