If you are a man, and this film does not raise your temperature a degree or two, there is something seriously wrong with you. Brigette Bardot, without doing a nude scene (remember, this is the mid 1950s), gets more mileage from her screen time than any ten naked women having sex on the screen in today's highly permissive society. THIS is what sexy is; not blatant nudity and sexual activity. I've already forgotten the plot of the film; men would come to see this film without a plot. The rating is for Bardot, and the style in which she is presented as a sex object. The review would be two or three stars less from most women critics, I have no doubt, but not from this one.
PS. The remake with the hot Rebecca DeMornay made several years later is pretty good as well; but not as good as the original.
PS. The remake with the hot Rebecca DeMornay made several years later is pretty good as well; but not as good as the original.