The Female (1959 film)

1959 French film

La Femme et le Pantin / Femmina

Directed by| Julien Duvivier
Written by| Julien Duvivier
Albert Valentin
Jean Aurenche
Screenplay
Marcel Achard
Dialogues
Based on| La Femme et le pantin[1]
by Pierre Louÿs
Produced by| Christine Gouze-Rénal
Fred Surin
Starring| Brigitte Bardot
Cinematography| Roger Hubert
Edited by| Jacqueline Sadoul
Music by| Jean Wiener
José Rocca

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)[2]

The Female (French: La Femme et le pantin, lit. 'The Woman and the Puppet', Italian: Femmina), released in the United Kingdom 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

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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 – Éva Marchand
* António Vilar – Don Mateo Diaz
* Lila Kedrova – Manuela
* Daniel Ivernel – Berthier
* Darío Moreno – Arbadajian
* Jacques Mauclair – Stanislas Marchand
* Jess Hahn – 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.[3]

## 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 2011-02-12.
2. ^ Box office information for film at Box office story
3. ^ 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
* The Female at AllMovie

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Films directed by Julien Duvivier

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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