The NYT reports.
Much as I've admired Brigitte Bardot for her great beauty, I have never seen a Brigitte Bardot movie, not even "Contempt."
"We must rebel when we're trapped by circumstances, conventions."
Here's her filmography, full of titles I'm sad not to recognize.
"At best, Ms. Bardot was considered eccentric in her later years, prompting observations that this former sex kitten, as she was often called, had turned into a “crazy cat lady,'" it says in the NYT obituary.
At best? That's because of this: "In 2004, she was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and fined, for similar comments in 'A Cry in the Silence,' a nonfiction best seller in which she referred to Muslims as 'cruel and barbaric invaders.' By 2008, she had been convicted of the same charge five times."
And:
Interviewed by the magazine Paris Match in January 2018, she denounced the #MeToo movement, calling actresses’ claims of sexual harassment “hypocritical, ridiculous, without interest.”A few weeks later, in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, Kate McKinnon, as Ms. Bardot, shouted, “Free Harvey Weinstein!” Catherine Deneuve, played by Cecily Strong in the sketch, explained, “Brigitte is very old and very wrong.”
She was also said to be a recluse:
“I am not a recluse,” she told The Toronto Star in 1988. “I live like an unsociable person; it is different.”
“People,” she added, “get on my nerves.”
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There's a photo of Brigitte Bardot at nytimes.com where she looks about as much like a Persian cat as is humanly possible.
Wow. They really don't like her over at the NYT, do they?
Ms. Bardot popped up in my consciousness a few times. I have no opinion either way, but the NYT article make it seem like she was bitter and evil.
I suspect that is the wrong take.
RIP Brigitte.
So, a French National icon was convicted for her opinions?
What ever happened to liberte?
it’s sometimes impossible to see many of those films and perhaps still is. When nobody is willing to invest to distribute they disappear. One of my high school english teachers was also a film critic and so could get his hands on old reels sometimes, so our film studies classes were pretty great…
BB knew the score on Islam and Muslim behavior.
I recall all those pictures of baseball games where every man was expected to wear the proper type of fedora but did those rules also apply at home, too? 🤪
Married four times and one child.
If they had only listened to her, France could’ve been saved.
Bardot was not only beautiful but wise. She enjoyed the fame the world gives yet understood how quickly it turns to chaf. Bridget was blessed to have a rich, full life. No doubt her “twilight years” were filled with reflection about what the real value of life is and what her true role was. God rest her soul.
People magazine, June 3, 2008 below.
As an American, I’m stunned by this. And, apparently, a private letter!
“ Former French screen siren Brigitte Bardot was fined nearly $25,000 on Tuesday after being convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying her country.
The court in Paris also ordered Bardot, 73, to pay $1,555 in damages to a leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP, the Associated Press reports.
Bardot, an ardent animal-rights activist, had written a letter in December 2006 to the then-Interior Minister (and now, President) Nicolas Sarkozy in which she criticized the Muslim festival of Aid el-Kebir, which reportedly is celebrated by slaughtering sheep. In the letter, she wrote that France is “tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts.”
1. I too can be unsociable and understand her perfectly.
2. It appears current events are proving her correct and that Islamic colonization of Europe is indeed having a negative effect on the French quality of life, ability to peaceably assemble and the barbarity with which those particular immigrants go about cruelly raping pillaging stabbing and burning shit is inarguably self-evident.
3. Civilization and beauty are both intolerable to the Islamists as their "religion" requires killing of infidels.
Yah I like idea of people but the reality can be quite different…
She's mostly known for tits.
A passionate societal argument in France used to be about accent grave ou aigu…
Sorry to see her go but 91 is a good long life. She was great in contempt. Also La Vérité.
The French and American elite support immigrants over their native citizens and non-Christians over Christians. Hence, the snide and negative obit from the NYTs.
Like Garbo she wanted to be alone in her old age.
Not a grumpy old man, a grumpy old actress.
“People,” she added, “get on my nerves.”
This statement resonates with me more and more as the years go by.
.muslims arent a race they can be be as white as chechens as dark as yemeni
Muslims destroy. Democratic leftist Soviets - destroy.
Like kodos and kang
I like women with beauty, brains, and bravery. But Bardot had so much of all of those that it just wasn’t fair.
As a teenager, I was captivated by her beauty and sexiness. I have seen several photo spreads, most of them of her in the nude. She was startingly sexy. I used to laugh when they compared Jane Fonda as America's BB. Not. Even. Close. RIP
Perhaps she was triggered into criticism of Muslims in 2004 by the Madrid train bombings that took place that year, in which Muslim radicals blew up multiple trains and killed 193 civilians.
Ironic that she personified Marianne but they didn't like her acting out that "liberty" business, just wanted her to show equality and fraternity (in an Animal Farm sort of way.)
What could possibly go wrong when dissent becomes illegal?
Any human endeavor that cannot be criticized is doomed to destroy itself while damaging everything it touches along the way. In the end, it cannot prevail, but it can get dangerously far feeding on cowardice.
It’s funny, people usually mellowed out as they age (John McCain) or occasionally get more fired up (Trump). Bardot is the latter category.
She understood the power that her beautiful body gave her. She was unmistakably feline in the way she used it. The original, and only, sex kitten.
---- “People,” she added, “get on my nerves.”
The ultimate introvert. Cursed with an appearance that would send people constantly to her. A mean bit of God's humor.
As for "Contempt," it is one of the more watchable Godard movies, but that is not saying a lot. Have watched it a couple times and there are definitely things to like as he was being forced to tell some kind of a story by the film's backers, but it is still not quite fun.
She was a great movie star without ever making a great movie. Does that diminish or magnify her greatness?......I saw Contempt. The only thing I remember about the movie was her one brief nude scene.........Catherine Deneuve was perhaps a tad better looking, but for raw sex appeal, only MM played in BB's league. I guess in another fifty years though, people will still watch Belle de Jour or Some Like It Hot. It's a shame that she left no movie to memorialize her moment.
Loren survives.
Brigitte Bardot's insouciance, in response to and enabled by the men attracted by her beauty, seemingly defined the female personae for the modern French romantic film genre.
A force of personality that continued off-screen, after her beauty faded, seemingly to the consternation of her detractors and persecutors. RIP
I can't imagine watching a whole movie of that.
A few years ago I stumbled on a YouTube clip from the movie “The Legend of Frenchie King,” a sort of a comedic spaghetti western starring Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale. The French title was “Les Pétroleuses,” which Google translates into “The Petroleum Women.” That was a lot of pulchritude for s single screen.
I recollect that the particular clip featured a bevy of attractive women skinny dipping in a water hole while some cowboys ogle them from behind the crest of a hill. Pretty tame stuff but I’ll bet it’s been pulled by YouTube’s censors.
"Gave up acting at 39 ...". So she saved her money, and was able to retire young.
It has not escaped my notice that both the stars of “The Legend of Frenchie King” passed away this year.
This former sex kitten, as she was often called, had turned into a “crazy cat lady."
Roger Vadim had that effect on women.
If you need more evidence, consider Jane Fonda.
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Like Garbo she wanted to be alone in her old age.
I don't think this is true.
When women like this turn 16-20 or so they gain the power of superman. Almost every man in the world does what she wants them to do but they did nothing to gain this power. This causes them to have mental issues.
Then after the age of 20 this power slowly fades until it is gone.
They are forced to learn skills normal people have to learn, but they are past the age when learning is easy.
@narciso: ...muslims arent a race they can be be as white as chechens as dark as yemeni ...."
They are a race: A race to destruction on the shortest direct path for any western civilization too stupid to defend themselves while they can.
BB was a noteworthy and worthwhile lady who leveraged her sexuality and beauty to get what she wanted from life - RIP.
I'll chime in here with my take on Godard's "Contempt". It's a movie about making a movie, and Godard constantly shows the camera and lights of the movie that he is making, not just the movie within the movie, which ruins the viewers ability to "suspend disbelief" and actually enjoy the story, the characters, the movie itself. Bardot is hot and Jack Palance is cool, and it could have been a pretty good film but Godard just can't let the viewer alone and has to constantly whack the audience in the face with his intellectual abuse and disdain for the movie experience. He only got worse and more obnoxious in his filmmaking, so that the "intelligentsia" are the only kind that can enjoy his crappy deconstructions and mutilations of story. Anyone seen his "King Lear"? Don't bother, absolute shit. In my mind, Contempt is what Godard showed for film and for filmgoers.
No burqa for Bardot
I wonder if any of our leftists who comment here will jump in to defend how France treated Bardot and her speech. This is, after all, what Democrats and leftists want here in America is it not? Fining and jailing people who disagree with them.
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