Cinema: Confessions of a Femme Fatale

At 48, La Bar dot strips away the legend

Bridgette Bardot has finally found it. Not the perfect man (Mon Dieu, c'est im possible!), but something else that has al ways eluded her: the perfect role. After purring and pouting her way through countless films as the sultry femme fatale who could resist anything but temptation, Bardot has turned herself into another French institution, the wise and slightly world-weary philosophe. Voila! At 48, the sex object has become an d'art.

Each Sunday night for the past three weeks, millions of French viewers have tuned...

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