''The Female'' (french: La Femme et le pantin, lit=The Woman and the Puppet, it, Femmina), released in the United Kingdom as ''A Woman Like Satan'', is a 1959 French-Italian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Julien Duvivier. It is the fourth
film adaptation of the novel ''
La Femme et le pantin'' by
Pierre Louÿs.
Plot
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
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António Vilar – Don Mateo Diaz
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Lila Kedrova – Manuela
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Daniel Ivernel – Berthier
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Darío Moreno – Arbadajian
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Jacques Mauclair – Stanislas Marchand
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Jess Hahn
Jesse Beryle Hahn (October 29, 1921June 29, 1998) was an American-French character actor who mostly starred in French films.
Biography
After serving with the Marines in the Second World War, he moved to France in 1949 and took French citizen ...
– Sidney
Production
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
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during the
Seville Fair
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The fair officially be ...
.
[Extrait de ses mémoires, ''Initiales BB'', Éditions Grasset, Paris, 1996, ]
See also
* ''
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
External links
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1959 films
1959 drama films
Films directed by Julien Duvivier
Films shot in Spain
1950s French-language films
Films with screenplays by Jean Aurenche
French drama films
Italian drama films
Films based on works by Pierre Louÿs
1950s Italian films
1950s French films