Product Details

• Actors: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hirsch, Jacques Dumesnil, Jacques Bouillaud
• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Language: French
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
• VHS Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304502028
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #452,362 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Brigitte Bardot takes one of her first starring roles as a provincial girl who heads to Paris to become a novelist and, through a complicated (and often silly) set of misunderstandings, winds up competing in a striptease contest behind a mask and a pseudonym. The inevitable conflict occurs when her reporter boyfriend starts wooing both Bardots while charged with unmasking the mystery sexpot, climaxing in a door-slamming farce of mistaken identities. This frothy sex comedy, written by Bardot's husband and sometime director, Roger Vadim, and directed with minimal style but good humor by Marc Allegret, puts its assets right up front. Bardot plays the good girl with a bad girl's body, the innocent object of every man's lust, whose shyness makes her striptease act more tease than strip. In the background is a stream of cheesecake poses and almost nonchalant nudity from Bardot's fellow contestants (Bardot remains strategically covered but teasingly displayed in tight dresses and low necklines). Hardly a comedy classic, this lightweight bon-bon is an unapologetic product of the age of sexual double standards, largely buoyed by Bardot's charms and a solid cast of supporting comic actors. --Sean Axmaker

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining wacky comedy, June 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Plucking the Daisy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Plucking the Daisy is a zany comedy in black and white.

The cast of characters do a fine job. Bardot here looks so very young.This lady always seems to be a joy to watch especially in lighter fare such as this movie. While maybe not one of her sexier performances it is still one of her better overall performances.

Bardot plays the role of a 'good girl' and a rather atypical shy and modest one. She gets into trouble by her own doing and enters an amateur striptease contest to win some much needed cash to bail herself out of her predictament. While other contestants take it all off during the competition, Bardot bares very little at all but still manages to win the contest (first phase).

Other versions of this movie are called Madamoselle Striptease and Please Mr. Balzac. Plucking the Daisy is the film you want to see since it has been digitally restored and is in excellent condition.

While I can't put Plucking the Daisy high on my list of favorite Bardot movies it is nonetheless an eminently watchable and entertaining flick. Those who enjoy wacky type comedies should really enjoy this one.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Epitome of striptease in all its restored glory, August 8, 2002

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Luc-Andre d'Aragon (Verdun, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Plucking the Daisy (DVD)

I first saw this movie when I was ten and it began my lifelong fascination with striptease. But, I had only seen a version (probably trimmed for North America) featuring only partial strip, a version which was later released on video. When I saw the DVD version, my eyes popped out of my head : the contestants performing just before Bardot in the striptease contest were fully nude at the end of their act! It was so unbelievable and unexpected that at first I thought that it was fake, that the remaining clothes had been digitally edited out, but no! As I saw by comparing with the VHS version, those are really different takes on the same scene! And the quality of the transfer is top-notch, much better than on the VHS.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delightful Bardot comedy, June 15, 2009

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William R. Ray (Arden, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Plucking the Daisy (DVD)

DVD transfer is very good. The images are sharp and clear. This is a black and white picture in French with English subtittles.

Brigitte is wonderful as a runaway school girl gone to Paris to make her fortune. Her misadventures make the storyline but it's pure Bardot so her fans should enjoy this one. Oh yes, there is brief nudity but Brigitte keeps it on which is part of the story. She wins a striptease contest even though her modesty keeps her from "Plucking the Daisy" as the title (American) suggests. This film is about as funny as it can get for American audiences who have to read the subtitles.

Recommended to just about all audiences with a special nod to fans of Bardot.