Manina... la Fille sans Voiles (1952)
Genre: Adventure / Romance
Duration: 86 minuten
Alternative titles: The Girl in the Bikini / The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter / Manina, het Meisje Zonder Sluier
Country:
France
Directed by: Willy Rozier
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-François Calvé and Howard Vernon
IMDb score:
5,4 (595)
Releasedate: 27 March 1953
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Actors and actresses
Manina
Gérard Morère
Éric
'La Franchucha'
Mr. Moulon / Purzel
Francis, bartender
Gérard's friend
Mathilda
Reviews & comments
Brix
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- 19806 messages
- 5219 votes
Lighthearted film, in more than one respect.
The acting isn't really anything special.
Bardot lip-syncs a few songs, but the vocal style used for this does not suit her own voice at all.
I'd rather have the feisty Black singer, España Cortez, who provides some vocal fireworks earlier in the film and looks good too..
BB, here still with dark hair—which by the way suits her well—looks quite nice.
All in all, her uninhibitedness makes her at least somewhat more palatable to me here than in many of her later films.
For the fans (which I am not), it seems to me like a video they simply must see.
With the "exciting," and especially loud, music, they tried to inject some tension into the whole thing.
In my case, at least, it made sure I didn't completely doze off at times.
The scene with the sinking boat is ridiculously clumsy. The toy boat used for it doesn't even look like the ship in question.
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T.O.
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- 2483 messages
- 2871 votes
Only fun to watch because of the young BB, otherwise a truly forgettable trifle.
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blurp194
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- 5834 messages
- 4395 votes
BB #2
Whether it is due to the restoration or the film was always this muddled, I can't quite figure it out right away, but the story is a bit too disjointed and the filmmakers apparently had no hear of continuity, let alone a narrative arc. It could have been a great adventure film about a tough hero, a beautiful girl, a treasure from the sea, and an evil captain, but very little of that remains.
BB's acting may be mediocre, although it is hard to really say anything about that in a production that is so, uh, mediocre—right down to scenes that look like they were shot against a fake background where that background is in focus instead of the actors. A fix for a failed scene, perhaps.
Why she was given the honor of appearing first in the credits, and even before the film's title with her own slide, is somewhat of a mystery in retrospect. Did the filmmakers already realize how big BB would become? You certainly wouldn't guess it from her role in this production.
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