Until january 31, 2010
A child's room, her first degree
in classical dance, her bust of Marianne by Aslan, two screenprints by
Andy Warhol, a Harley-Davidson WL 750 siglée his initials
... All the Bardot myth is explored in the first exhibition devoted to
the living legend of French cinema. Until
January 31, Espace Landowski Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) near
Paris, offers twenty scenographies time recreating the world of the
star, which will celebrate its 75th birthday. This fabulous story begins with a holiday movie of BB, then aged four, on
vacation in Hendaye, kiss a boy, and finish with a tribute to his
commitment to the cause animal and its work foundation established in
1986. "Of course, I am touched
and honored to be in my lifetime, it goes straight to my heart,"
confided Brigitte Bardot in a recent interview with The Associated
Press. "But just, I'll live long enough to see things finally change
for sustainable which is my reason for living?" Asks the "passionaria"
of the animal cause. 1,000 m2 of exhibition are devoted to her destiny. We see Bardot take its first step into the light in 1949
through a friend of her mother, asking for the "Jardin des Modes
Junior. A first service accepted by the family because his name was
mentioned and was not paid. A clause intangible at the time for a girl
of good family sixteenth arrondissement of Paris. "If Brigitte is wrong, it
will go wrong anyway, cinema or not," predicted his grandfather in 1952
during a family meeting designed to decide whether his film debut. The film is the
leitmotiv of the exhibition. She does
not turn the pages of a large photo album, but also replace all the
angles covered in the context of the society of the time. "Brigitte has
begun in a corseted world, right-thinking and petty bourgeois," said
Henry-Jean Servat, friend, chairman of the exhibition. Archive news, photos,
articles, advertisements or previews of 17 of the 48 films she shot
shows how the wise little ballerina became a sex symbol. A free woman
of all moral constraints told through his two suicide attempts, his
four marriages and her meteoric career stopped in its tracks in 1973,
"without remorse or regret." Today, 68% of French say
they have a good opinion of Brigitte Bardot, according to an Ifop poll
published this weekend in "South-West Sunday. A score that is 72% among
women, which has long symbolized the emancipation. The exhibition is full of
anecdotes and stories to measure the influence of Bardot, like Janet
and Joan Mary Ann Jackson, twins American fan of Bardot in the
60s. Believing that despite their efforts, they wont reach their
idol, they killed themselves by asphyxiation in their vehicle.