Marc Eliot’s Art of Film

Marc Allégret’s 1956 Plucking the Daisy

This French comedy stars Brigitte Bardot (what more can anyone ask for?) in her final film before she appeared later that year in husband Roger Vadim’s myth-making Et Dieu…creaté la femme - And God Created Woman, one of the films that inspired   Godard and anticipated the French New Wave. In Daisy, all the Bardot magic and sex-kitten appeal are on full display. This little-seen-in-America   film is a gem of ‘50s family-friendly French sex comedies  The Los Angeles Times called it "a most delightful, naughty and very funny comedy...Bardot strikes pure gold…it’s strictly a fun show that doesn't try to prove a thing.”  See it and you will go home smiling, with an insatiable appetite for a glass of French champagne. Viva la cinema Français, et Viva La Bardot!