One-off
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Director(s):
NICKLAUS (Olivier)
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Producer(s):
SLOW PRODUCTION, CINE PATRIMOINE CONCEPT, ARTE FRANCE
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2016
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
The global success of his 1956 film AND GOD CREATED WOMAN turned Roger Vadim into the acme of cool. He embodied the thirst for unbridled hedonism of a generation that had been through the horrors of war. His attitude earned him the title of “Mister Cool”.
Now that he had got his start, Vadim made a string of films in quick succession. He had the pick of great French actors such as Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe. He went through a string of relationships too, famously with Brigitte Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda. He used all of them in his films, fostering the legend of himself as a Svengali figure. But they all came to detest his casual womanizing.
Vadim might have become a great film director, but his playboy lifestyle got in the way of his career.