Brigitte Bardot’s Lucious Biopic Series Sparks Buzz at Series Mania, Sails to Major Markets (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent While she retired prematurely at the age of 39, Brigitte Bardot has left an indelible mark on France’s popular culture in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
With her wild blonde mane, smoky eyes and pouty lips, Bardot became a symbol of a modern and effortlessly sexy French woman, and a style emblem that continues to inspire current trends.
The event series “Bardot,” which is penned and directed by Daniele Thompson (“The Queen Margot”) and Christopher Thompson (“La bûche”), world premiered at Series Mania Festival to unanimous praise and has been pre-sold by Federation nearly worldwide. “‘Bardot’ is like the French ‘The Crown’ because Bardot embodied France, and through her journey we reminisce about many parts of France’s history and popular culture in the 1950’s and 1960’s,” Federation’s boss and “Bardot” producer Pascal Breton told Variety. “That era is a historical moment where everything changes, where we go from black and white to color, and for me Bardot symbolizes this turning point in every way, because we went from a very puritanical and cold society to a liberation, a social, political and sexual revolution,” Breton continues.
He admits he had been wanting to make a series about Bardot for about three decades and was inspired by when he created the cult series “Sous le Soleil” which is set in Saint Tropez by the beach where he remembers seeing Bardot singing, filmed by Serge Gainsbourg.
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