- Source: The Female (1959 film)
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 French-Italian drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It is the fourth film adaptation of the novel La femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs.
Plot
Mateo Diaz is a wealthy gentleman who loves and respects his wife but no longer finds her attractive because she is paralysed. He pursues Eva Marchand but she does not respond to his advances.
Cast
Brigitte Bardot – Éva Marchand
António Vilar – Don Mateo Diaz
Lila Kedrova – Manuela
Daniel Ivernel – Berthier
Darío Moreno – Arbadajian
Jacques Mauclair – Stanislas Marchand
Jess Hahn – Sidney
Production
Brigitte Bardot wrote in her autobiography that although the crew would call director Julien Duvivier "Dudu," the set was not harmonious. She also described the difficulty of filming in the heat of Seville during the Seville Fair.
See also
The Woman and the Puppet (1920)
The Woman and the Puppet (1929)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
References
External links
The Female at IMDb
The Female at AllMovie
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