by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
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.
characteristics
- Playing The Field
- Priest
- Politician
- Ridicule
- Seduction
- Sex
- Seductress
- Political
- Bachelorette
- Degradation
- Cousin
- Dehumanization
- Demean
- Humiliation
- Businessperson