The Female (1959 film)

Film by Julien Duvivier

The Female

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French| La femme et le pantin
Directed by| Julien Duvivier
Adaptation by| Julien Duvivier
Marcel Achard
Albert Valentin
Jean Aurenche
Dialogue by| Marcel Achard
Based on| The Woman and the Puppet[1]
by Pierre Louÿs
Produced by| Christine Gouze-Rénal
Fred Surin, Louis Dolivet
Starring|

* Brigitte Bardot
* António Vilar
* Darío Moreno

Cinematography| Roger Hubert
Edited by| Jacqueline Sadoul
Music by|

* Jean Wiener
* José Rocca

Production
companies

* Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma
* Gray-Film
* Dear Film Produzione
* Progéfi

Distributed by|

* Pathé Films (France)[2]
* Dear Film (Italy)[3]

Release dates

* 13 February 1959 (1959-02-13) (France)
* 4 March 1959 (1959-03-04) (Italy)

Running time

| 100 minutes
Countries|

* France
* Italy

Language| French
Box office| 2,453,892 admissions (France)[4]

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.

## Premise

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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

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* Brigitte Bardot as Éva Marchand
* António Vilar as Don Mateo Diaz
* Lila Kedrova as Manuela
* Daniel Ivernel as Berthier
* Darío Moreno as Arbadajian
* Jacques Mauclair as Stanislas Marchand
* Jess Hahn as Sidney

## Production

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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.[5]

## See also

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* 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

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1. ^ La Femme et le pantin von Pierre Louÿs (e-book download). Retrieved 12 February 2011.
2. ^ "A Woman Like Satan de Julien Duvivier". Unifrance. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
3. ^ "La femme et le pantin [Femmina] (1959)". Archivio del Cinema Italiano (in Italian). Retrieved 24 December 2024.
4. ^ Soyer, Renaud (9 March 2014). "La femme et le pantin – Box Office Brigitte Bardot 1959". Box Office Story (in French). Archived from the original on 21 October 2017.
5. ^ Extrait de ses mémoires, Initiales BB, Éditions Grasset, Paris, 1996, ISBN 2-246-52601-9

## External links

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* The Female at IMDb

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Filmography

* The Agony of the Eagles (1922)
* The Hurricane on the Mountain (1922)
* The Abbot Constantine (1925)
* The Red Head (1925)
* The Man with the Hispano (1926)
* The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927)
* The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)
* The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower (1928)
* The Divine Voyage (1929)
* La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (1930)
* David Golder (1931)
* Moon Over Morocco (1931)
* Here's Berlin (1932)
* The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932)
* The Red Head (1932)
* A Man's Neck (1933)
* The Little King (1933)
* Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
* Golgotha (1935)
* La Bandera (1935)
* Le Golem (1936)
* They Were Five (1936)
* The Man of the Hour (1937)
* Pépé le Moko (1937)
* Life Dances On (1937)
* The Great Waltz (1938)
* The End of the Day (1939)
* The Phantom Carriage (1939)
* Lydia (1941)
* Tales of Manhattan (1942)
* The Heart of a Nation (1943)
* Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
* The Impostor (1944)
* Panique (1946)
* Anna Karenina (1948)
* The Sinners (1949)
* Black Jack (1950)
* Under the Sky of Paris (1951)
* Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
* Holiday for Henrietta (1952)
* The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
* On Trial (1954)
* Marianne of My Youth (1955)
* Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
* The Man in the Raincoat (1957)
* Lovers of Paris (1957)
* The Female (1959)
* Marie-Octobre (1959)
* The High Life (1960)
* Boulevard (1960)
* The Burning Court (1962)
* The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
* Highway Pick-Up (1963)
* Diabolically Yours (1967)

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The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs

Films|

* The Woman and the Puppet (1920)
* The Woman and the Puppet (1929)
* The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
* The Female (1959)
* That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Opera|

* Conchita (1911)

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