The caption «This series is based on a true story», placed at the beginning of a fiction that tells the life of a real person, may appear obvious, superfluous. But then, thinking about it, since it is the life of Brigitte Bardot, that statement acquires a particular meaning since the life of the French diva, who will celebrate her ninetieth birthday in September, seems in itself to be a cinematographic script, a film story, starting from love affairs, experienced in everyday life as well as on the screen. It is no coincidence that even in the Bardot series, the second part of which was broadcast last night on Canale 5, the focus is on the fiction-reality game in some moments. See for example the love passion with the young Jean Louis Trintignant who in this series created and directed by Danièle and Christopher Thompson (curiously mother and son) takes shape on the film set, moving from fiction to reality. Aside from that, the series relies heavily on melodramatic tones to chronicle a decade of Bardot’s life, from the beginning of her whirlwind career to her attempted suicide on her twenty-sixth birthday. We start with a very young Brigitte who at just fifteen years old is noticed by the twenty-one year old director Roger Vadim with whom, in addition to cinema, she discovers love, sexuality and the desire for freedom, rebelling against the rigid and conventional education of her family, becoming thus for an entire generation a symbol of femininity, but also of revolutionary non-conformism. «But not everything is as it seems», says at a certain point the actress Julia De Nunez in the role of the protagonist, as if to confirm the question of appearing and being: on the one hand the mythical woman that everyone wanted to imitate, on the The other is the fragile girl, who grew up too quickly and too soon, dazzled by success and passion. © all rights reserved
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