The bride on your neck: Brigitte Bardot and Michel Subor doing winter sports

In the early 1960s, Brigitte Bardot was so successful that her husband Roger Vadim was able to film one star vehicle after another with her. And it worked well because BB simply had an unparalleled screen presence.

Let's start with a wild ride through Paris that is reminiscent of the best moments of the silent film era. After that it becomes more predictable. BB plays the photo model Sophie, who is no longer really happy with her photographer boyfriend Philipp (Jacques Riberolles). Of course she doesn't like the fact that he's traveling from America to winter sports in the Alps with his new flame (Josephine James). By chance she meets the two likeable doctors Alain (Michel Subor) and Claude (Claude Brasseur), who are of course very keen on the beautiful blonde and wouldn't be averse to a threesome. But that's not possible with jealous Sophie. She convinces the dashing Alain to travel after her ex and then make him really jealous. Sophie also takes a rifle with her just in case...

Of course, you only watch this harmless fun because of BB. You can see them in go-karts, bobsleds and frolicking around in the snow. Of course there is also a dream sequence that BB completes in the nude jersey. To be on the safe side, filming is done through a kind of gauze curtain so that the audience's eyes don't fall out of their heads. ?

Mireille Darc (1938-2017) and Serge Marquand (1930-2004) also appear in other roles. BB's lover Michel Subor (1935-2022) is also known as Frederick Stafford's son-in-law in TOPAS by Alfred Hitchcock, and Claude Brasseur (1936-2020) is well known as Sophie Marceau's father in the LA BOUM films.

Harmless star vehicle with Brigitte Bardot and a slight pinch of sexiness!

Ms. Bardot, as always, is charming and delightful and has a cool little studio apartment in this lovely pastiche. It's perfectly cast with very few semi-nude scene and Brigitte is delightfully in love with a yuppie fool who can't see the light. BB's suitor is funny and attentive and worthy of her attention.

A 6 out of 10. Best performance = Ms. Bardot. She made only a few great films, but is always worth a look because of her presence. Great photography and locales in France. I'm surprised BB doesn't have more of a following, but I realize she hasn't made a film since '73. I've seen about half of her films and enjoyed most of them. Check them out.

Thoroughly unfunny, with a pathetically weak script (90 minutes of Bardot trying to make her ex-boyfriend jealous by going out with another man....only to realize that - gasp! - she loves the second man instead). The only potentially memorable sequence (and the centerpiece of the trailer!) is a nude dance by Bardot - but don't get your hopes (or anything else....) up, it's a "dream" and thus shot through hazy filters which prevent you from seeing anything. 0.5 out of 4 stars.