La Femme et le Pantin (1959)

Directed by

Julien Duvivier

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

TP

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy man becomes infatuated with a beautiful and unpredictable young woman. He pursues her through Spain, caught in a game of desire and control.

seductiveobsessivetenseromanticglamorousmanipulative

What happens

The Female (French: La femme et le pantin, lit. 'The Woman and the Puppet', Italian: Femmina), released in the United Kingdom and the Philippines as A Woman Like Satan, is a 1959 drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It is the fourth film adaptation of the 1898 novel The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs. The film stars Brigitte Bardot and António Vilar, with Darío Moreno. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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