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.
Please, Not Now!
1961 [FRENCH]
Comedy / Romance
Plot summary
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
April 03, 2024 at 03:49 AM
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Charming, Semi-Ditzy Bardot!
Terrible Bardot vehicle
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.
Young people can do as they like nowadays...
That's what the title means ...Nowadays was actually 1961.But BB was an important actress,because she created a brand new type of woman on the screen,not a bimbo as too many people think today.We cannot say the same of her ex-husband and director Vadim,with whom she made five films("Et Dieu créa la femme" ,"Les bijoutiers du clair de lune" ," "le repos du guerrier" "Don Juan73" and this movie).None of this bad lot would deserve to be watched today,if it were not for BB .
"La bride sur le cou" was first directed by Jean Aurel,who wrote the screenplay ,but Vadim finished and took the credit.This is a harmless comedy,with an occasional funny line.THe love and sympathy BB feels for animals emerge sometimes.An erotic dance is given the soft focus treatment,because of the censorship.Today it would not shock a ten-year-old.