Date & Time: Saturday March 7th at 2.00pm
Details: Henri-Georges Clouzet / France / 1960 / 127 mins
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey, Marie-Jose Nat
Remembering Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot, actor, singer, animal rights campaigner and French icon died in Saint-Tropez in December 2025, aged 91. She achieved international fame in 1956 with the Roger Vadim directed Et Dieu créa la Femme / And God Created Woman and went on to appear in some 50 more films before giving up acting to devote herself to defending animal rights. Despite various controversies, Bardot attained the status of a French national monument, posing for the statue of Marianne, the symbol of the Republic, in 1969.
“Her films, her voice, her dazzling fame, her initials, her sorrows, her generous passion for animals, her face that became Marianne: Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom.” French president, Emmanuel Macron
Ms. Bardot told a French newspaper that she considered La Vérité, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Oscar-nominated 1960 crime drama, the only good film she ever made.
Beautiful, troubled Dominique Marceau (Brigitte Bardot) came to bohemian Paris to escape the suffocation of provincial life, only to wind up in a courtroom, accused of a terrible crime: the murder of her lover (Sami Frey). As the trial commences and the lawyers begin tangling over Dominique’s fate, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Oscar-nominated La Vérité delves into her past, reconstructing her struggle to find a foothold in the city. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of an impulsive young woman misunderstood and mistreated by those around her, and of her ultimately tragic affair with an up-and-coming conductor. With an astonishing performance by Bardot, Clouzot’s affecting and intricately constructed film—a huge late-career success for the French master—renders a harsh verdict against a hypocritical and moralistic society.