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Season 1
Brigitte was not yet 15 when she posed for the cover of the brand new ELLE magazine. Very quickly spotted by the young Vadim, assistant to the director Marc Allégret, she obtained
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Brigitte was not yet 15 when she posed for the cover of the brand new ELLE magazine. Very quickly spotted by the young Vadim, assistant to the director Marc Allégret, she obtained permission from her family to try out for a film. Her parents, wealthy bourgeois from Passy, do not believe in her future as an actress. However, thanks to this meeting with Vadim, fate gets carried away. Brigitte discovers cinema, but above all love, sexuality and freedom. She rebels against her strict and conventional upbringing, blossoms, discovers her femininity, her personality. She turns small roles and becomes a "starlet" in sight. After three years of lies and concealment, she finally has the right, at 18, to marry her great love.
They have been lovers for five years, married for two years. Vadim is about to shoot his first film, And God... Created Woman. He was inspired by Brigitte to write Juliette, his heroine,
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They have been lovers for five years, married for two years. Vadim is about to shoot his first film, And God... Created Woman. He was inspired by Brigitte to write Juliette, his heroine, and chose a small, little-known village on the shores of the Mediterranean as the setting: Saint-Tropez. He also chooses a 20-year-old actor to play Michel, his cursed lover. Jean-Louis Trintignant is an austere and introverted boy. He is married, loves great texts and classical music. Brigitte is not thrilled by this icy partner and so far from her. But, under the eyes of the whole team, and of Vadim behind his camera, an insidious attraction takes place between the two young people.
The shootings are linked. Agents, producers: the entourage is jubilant. Brigitte manipulates journalists with charm and skill, but notoriety is more and more intrusive. It is also
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The shootings are linked. Agents, producers: the entourage is jubilant. Brigitte manipulates journalists with charm and skill, but notoriety is more and more intrusive. It is also useful: Brigitte manages to get Jean-Louis, stationed in Germany, to return to Paris to finish his military service away from Algeria. A call from his idol, the singer Gilbert Bécaud, enchants him. The two stars have a crush. Jean-Louis feels betrayed. Mortified, he leaves Brigitte despite her pleas and oaths of loyalty. She then falls into a trap she never imagined: an affair with a very famous married man...
At the funeral of her beloved grandfather, Brigitte's grief is immense. The family, the relatives surround him. Fortunately, filming begins: "Babette goes to war" a comedy with Jacques
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At the funeral of her beloved grandfather, Brigitte's grief is immense. The family, the relatives surround him. Fortunately, filming begins: "Babette goes to war" a comedy with Jacques Charrier. Madly in love, fiery, sure of himself, he introduces Brigitte to his parents. She is the woman of his life, she will be the mother of his children and the cinema will quickly be forgotten. Their son's naivety worries the Charrier couple. Brigitte has no desire to start a family and the idea of a child terrifies her. The news of her pregnancy is a cataclysm for her. She calls Vadim for help. Before their marriage, he had held her hand in the kitchen of an "angel maker"...
Brigitte is three months pregnant and no one on the set of "Do you want to dance with me?" must not know. To the great despair of his parents, Jacques broke his contract. Alain Delon
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Brigitte is three months pregnant and no one on the set of "Do you want to dance with me?" must not know. To the great despair of his parents, Jacques broke his contract. Alain Delon will replace him. In mourning for "Plein soleil", he joins Brigitte, who is filming in Nice. Far from giving up on the cinema, she already has a film project after the birth of the baby. Tired and depressed, he can no longer bear Brigitte's entourage. He verbally attacks Olga, Brigitte's agent, who comes to bring him the brilliant screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot. She hunts Jacques and wants a divorce. After a tense first meeting with the sulphurous Henri-Georges and his wife Véra, "La Vérité" materializes...
It's party time at La Madrague. Brigitte dances, rediscovers a little joie de vivre, and even Jacques sulking and the crying baby won't spoil the evening for her. She focuses on the
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It's party time at La Madrague. Brigitte dances, rediscovers a little joie de vivre, and even Jacques sulking and the crying baby won't spoil the evening for her. She focuses on the preparation of "The Truth", the choice of her future partner and her ambiguous relationship with the poisonous director. Jacques, in full depression, goes back and forth to the clinic, the filming is painful. Only Alain, her confidant and dedicated secretary, comforts her and shares her moments of solitude. Clouzot uses Brigitte's fractures, he is tough and cynical. His acting direction, sometimes even accompanied by physical violence, is borderline unbearable. The young Sami Frey remains locked in silence. But this indifference hides feelings that upset him...
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