AKA Et Dieu... créa la femme.
"Ah! The Garden of Eden in Saint-Tropez!"
Juliete Hardy (Brigitte Bardot) is an eighteen year old orphan in St Tropez, who causes scandal with her free ways. She attracts the attention of the wealthy Eric Carradine (Curd Jürgens), but she prefers Antoine Tardieu (Christian Marquand), who owns a rundown shipyard. Unfortunately he isn't interested in more than a one nightstand before leaving St Tropez. Things come to a head when her guardians decide to send her back to the orphanage due to scandal she is attracting. Antoine's brother Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant) comes to her rescue and proposes; a proposal she is happy to accept. Their happy marriage then hits a snag when the Tardieu's decides to sell the shipyard and Antoine returns to manage it. Seeing him again re-ignited Juliete's desire for him; a desire that will only end in tragedy.
The film that brought Bardot to the attention of the western world, which looks quaint now, but caused many pulses to race at the time. Basically its an excuse to show her in various states of undress and causing mayhem and lust wherever she went.
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