Don Juan (Or If Don Juan Were a Woman) (1973)
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This campy Roger Vadim film stars sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot as Jeanne, the female counterpart to Don Juan, a woman who is ruthlessly wicked in her pursuit of love and desire. Jeanne confesses murder to a young priest (Mathieu Carriere) who is also her cousin, and after she tells him the story of… More This campy Roger Vadim film stars sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot as Jeanne, the female counterpart to Don Juan, a woman who is ruthlessly wicked in her pursuit of love and desire. Jeanne confesses murder to a young priest (Mathieu Carriere) who is also her cousin, and after she tells him the story of how she has ruined the lives of a long succession of men, she shamelessly seduces the priest as well. Her story told in flashback, Jeanne gets off to a rocky start as an heiress: her father died while cussing her out for her low-down ways. She gets even with each of the men who does her wrong, usually in devastating ways, but in the end, she sacrifices all for love. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roger Vadim
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Feb 22, 1973 Wide
- Studio
- Criterion Collection
Critic Reviews
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James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
Vadim plays with the material's tone incessantly, varying from heavy melodrama to campy excess
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Gil Jawetz, DVDTalk.com
There is so much posturing and preening in the film it looks like a spoof, sort Not Another French Sex Movie.
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
Fun to watch Bardot strut her stuff
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Cast
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Brigitte Bardot
as Jeanne
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Maurice Ronet
as Pierre
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Mathieu Carriere
as Paul
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Robert Hossein
as Prevost
- Henri Attal
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Jane Birkin
as Clara
- Paul Bisciglia
- Samson Fainsilber
- Robert Favart
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Michèle Sand
as Leporella
- Dominique Zardi
- Antoine Fontaine
- Aldo Bastoni
- Laurent Vergez
- Sylvie Reichenbach
- Juan Carlos Álvarez
- Lena Grinda
- Robert Walker Jr.
