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MANINA: The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter 
Distributor: Force Entertainment
Certificate: PG | 86 Minutes | Region 4 | PAL Format |  
Available to buy 

Extras: No 

ANYONE IN IT WE KNOW?

Brigitte Bardot, Jean Francois Calve, Howard Vernon, Espanite Cortez

WHAT’S IT ABOUT THEN?

Brigitte Bardot's film debut from 1952 is a melodramatic Gallic feast, Bardot plays the titular Lighthouse Keepers daughter Manina who falls for Gerard, an archaeologist who is searching the Corsican coastline for traces of Phoenician antiquity. Bardot, then only 18, spends much of the movie working the fellow members of Gerard's team into a high

level of sexual frustration, helped immensely by the skimpiest of skimpy bikinis.

The storyline isn't that original but put yourself back in the early 1950's and this is heady stuff, young love, sexual jealousy, Brigitte Bardot in her first brief nude scene, what more could you ask for. 

Following the global success she scored in And God Created Woman (directed by her then husband Roger Vadim) in 1956 most people assumed Woman was her first movie and her earlier movies have fallen by the wayside somewhat, however it is obvious to see that the classic Bardot look was already there in her debut, intriguing because here is one of the most beautiful women of her generation seemingly oblivious to the effects her looks have on

men, a line she was to follow for pretty much her entire career. 

A charmingly naive 1950's slice of French cinema that's worth a look. 

ANY SPECIAL FEATURES?

No extras.  

 


                              

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