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Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune (1958)

Crime | 95 minutes
2,26 43 votes

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Duration: 95 minuten

Alternative titles: Gli Amanti del Chiaro di Luna / Heaven Fell That Night / The Night Heaven Fell / De Juweliers van de Maneschijn / Spaanse Driften

Country: France / Italy

Directed by: Roger Vadim

Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Alida Valli and Stephen Boyd

IMDb score: 5,5 (856)

Releasedate: 5 April 1958

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Les Bijoutiers du Clair de Lune plot

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An orphaned girl comes to live with her aunt and uncle after a stay in a monastery. The uncle has driven a village girl to suicide and now he is being challenged by that girl's brother. The uncle loses his life in this. The orphaned girl (Bardot) falls in love with the brother and helps him flee, while her aunt sends the police after them.

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A trifle that serves primarily as a pretext for the audience to gape at Bardot. I agree with what has already been mentioned above: a Swiss cheese plot, poor acting, strange interactions between people speaking Spanish and those speaking French. Sometimes overly hysterical, sometimes sappy, sometimes boring. On the plus side: beautiful landscapes (I really should go on vacation to Spain sometime), and at times Bardot's appearance.

I would be surprised if this was considered anything more than trifle in 1958, so that is how you should view the film. Nothing more, nothing less.

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starbright boy (moderator films)

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It remains a struggle with the Bardot box set. And for the first time, the irritation lies with her, or rather, with the character she had to play. A sort of dim-witted, lustful innocence who asks her aunt for an explanation about love and says things like "it’s not bad to be sinful as long as you realize it." And more of that foreboding animal activism is also love for the piglet yet another way to turn Bardot into a sort of virginal child-woman.

On top of that, Bardot and her co-star have about as much chemistry as two tubes of toothpaste. While the first half is still watchable as a trifle, everything falls apart from the flight onwards and nothing of the film remains. Not even as a trifle. It’s been a while since I saw something this bad.

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blurp194

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BB #20

The twentieth BB film already. This time Vadim is once again responsible for both the direction and the script, but whereas I felt that worked above average in the past, this film is rather quite a flop. At the time of the film, the couple had also long since gone through a divorce; perhaps that played a role in it.

BB acts very poorly, in any case; in most scenes, she just hangs around as if she is completely uninterested and unmotivated. And then her hair—a few shades blonder than in the previous films, but correspondingly ruined.

The story—rather loosely based on a French book—jumps around a bit, and perhaps would have been better off starting where the flight continues past Nulle Part. Then the imagery becomes more beautiful, though still very uneven.

Most striking is undoubtedly the funeral, with Sergio Leone-esque extreme close-ups of a pair of black eyes, as if Lee Van Cleef were suddenly there. Did Leone copy that trick from Vadim? But contrasting with this moment is something like the scene at the windmill, for instance, which was clearly filmed against a painted background. What a mess, and why? Vadim apparently really was having an off day.

Still, a whole series of incredibly authentic-looking settings pass by. The village with the caves, the interior of one of those houses including how the donkeys are standing there, the first somewhat permanent bullfighting 'arena', the second improvised one, and the entire village surrounding it. It is truly a feast for the eyes regarding all those details.

The film's otherwise very beautiful and poetic title is not difficult to explain; it is explained in detail in the opening credits. To fully understand exactly how it relates to the two heroes, it might well be necessary to read the book. I will leave it, as they say so beautifully, 'as an exercise for the reader'.

As a film, it is 'interesting' or 'special' rather than good or exciting. But in any case, not a run-of-the-mill piece of work.

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