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- Trailer for Les Bijoutiers …
- Trailer for Une Parisienne
- Brigitte Bardot documentary
- Scene selection
- Photo Gallery
- Colour Booklet
- Biographies: Brigitte Bardot, Roger Vadim, Alida Valli, Stephen Boyd
DVD Technical Information:
- Aspect Ratio (feature): 16:9
- Running time: 87 mins approx.
- Language: French
- Subtitles: English
- Disc Format: PAL DVD-9
- Region Code: 2
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The stunning scenery of Franco’s Spain is only eclipsed by the beauty of Brigitte Bardot in this sensual, evocative film noir drama. Ursula (Bardot), leaves the convent where she has been educated, to live with her uncle, Count Ribera and her aunt Florentine (Alida Valli). On her arrival she becomes embroiled in a huge drama. Local boy Lamberto (Stephen Boyd) has accused the Count of causing the death of his sister. The two men fight a duel, Lamberto is injured but the Count’s honour is saved. Ursula nurses Lamberto back to health and the two fall in love. Ursula discovers that Lamberto and her aunt were lovers. When the Count discovers this, the two men fight again, but this time Lamberto kills the Count. Ursula and Lamberto go on the run, pursued by the police.
Bardot lights up the screen in this sumptuous drama directed by her then husband, Roger Vadim, hot on the heels of the international hit And God Created Woman. A treat for all Bardot fans.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Roger Vadim's second film with Brigitte Bardot, it follows a simple narrative of a young girl becoming infatuated with the man who has had an affair with her aunt, killed her uncle, and with whom she runs away to help him escape arrest. There is little else to it. Vadim makes best use of the Spanish scenery, treats us to some fascinating camera work, and ensures that Bardot's body is given plenty of exposure.
Bardot, of course, is stunningly beautiful, and she brings charm to the role. She never really hit it off with Hollywood, but she seduces and commands the camera at least as well as any other screen goddess. Bardot's beauty, however, is not enough to elevate the film above the ordinary.
The DVD seems, at first sight, to offer the promise of a documentary on Bardot - it is an insipid American series of trailers from some of her most famous films. The extras add little or nothing.
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LES BIJOUTIERS DU CLAIR DE LUNE,1957,colour,it's English title is THE MOONLIGHT JEWELLERS.
This is a French/Italian Production/language film but with English subtitles. Stars the stunning sexy blonde French
sex kitten BRIGITTE BARDOT or BB with ALIDA VALLI,STEPHEN BOYD,PEPE NIETO,are the main actors.
I liked this film very much it was filmed in Spain amongst some stunning Spanish scenic locations,
in totally glorious colour. It is a sensual,evocative film noir drama.
Ursula[Bardot],returns to live with her uncle,Count Ribera[P.Nieto]and her aunt Florentine[A.Valli].
On her arrival she becomes entangled in a big drama. For local Lamberto[Irish born-Stephen Boyd]has
accused The Count of causing the death of his sister. So the two men fight a duel,not once but on two
separate occasions,the second time killing The Count. Ursula then goes on the run with Lamberto,and the
two fall in love,both are pursued by the police. An excellent ending for this well acted drama.
The dvd also includes extras including an interesting 25 minute Brigitte Bardot Documentary[Hollywood Remembers].
Personally i think this film is worthy of at least four stars,i like it a great deal.
Irish actor Stephen Boyd would make another film with BB the 1968 western SHALAKO that starred Sean Connery,which
was also filmed in Spain.
Regards,Bill.
In my secondhand book titled "THE FILMS OF BRIGITTE BARDOT"[published 1979],this film is/was also known in the U.K.,as,
"HEAVEN FELL THAT NIGHT" and in America as "THE NIGHT HEAVEN FELL".
This is a French/Italian Production/language film but with English subtitles. Stars the stunning sexy blonde French
sex kitten BRIGITTE BARDOT or BB with ALIDA VALLI,STEPHEN BOYD,PEPE NIETO,are the main actors.
I liked this film very much it was filmed in Spain amongst some stunning Spanish scenic locations,
in totally glorious colour. It is a sensual,evocative film noir drama.
Ursula[Bardot],returns to live with her uncle,Count Ribera[P.Nieto]and her aunt Florentine[A.Valli].
On her arrival she becomes entangled in a big drama. For local Lamberto[Irish born-Stephen Boyd]has
accused The Count of causing the death of his sister. So the two men fight a duel,not once but on two
separate occasions,the second time killing The Count. Ursula then goes on the run with Lamberto,and the
two fall in love,both are pursued by the police. An excellent ending for this well acted drama.
The dvd also includes extras including an interesting 25 minute Brigitte Bardot Documentary[Hollywood Remembers].
Personally i think this film is worthy of at least four stars,i like it a great deal.
Irish actor Stephen Boyd would make another film with BB the 1968 western SHALAKO that starred Sean Connery,which
was also filmed in Spain.
Regards,Bill.
In my secondhand book titled "THE FILMS OF BRIGITTE BARDOT"[published 1979],this film is/was also known in the U.K.,as,
"HEAVEN FELL THAT NIGHT" and in America as "THE NIGHT HEAVEN FELL".
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
B.B., a kaleidoscope of dynamic excitement...
18 Dec 2006
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In 1956, Roger Vadim made a sensational debut as a motion picture director with 'And God Created Woman', a daringly erotic film that challenged conventional views of romanticism... Vadim presented the nude body of his young wife, Brigitte Bardot, in all the splendor of CinemaScope with beautiful Technicolor photography...
Along with Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda, Vadim was one of the founding members of the revolutionary French New Wave, to push the sexual archetype...
His subsequent films revealed him to be an accomplished European filmmaker with an eye for visual beauty and decorative elegance, but in content, his films have often been superficial and lacking in narrative strength... Sexual relations have been a recurrent theme in his films, the plot of which have often revolved around the undisputed beauty of his succession of wives - Brigitte Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, and Jane Fonda...
"The Night Heaven Fell" is the second collaboration between Vadim and Bardot... Vadim seems to have attempted to recapture the freshness and essence of the 'B.B.' he had helped to shape, but the re-creation escaped him, despite the careful choice of Albert Vidalie's novel and the casting of Stephen Boyd as leading man...
Bardot's innocently natural mannerisms had disappeared, and it seemed that she no longer needed Vadim to make use of her talents as an accomplished actress... Claude Autant-Lara succeeded much more with his film, 'Love Is My Profession,' playing Brigitte opposite Jean Gabin and Edwige Feuillere... Bardot came off as more than a sexual image, her persona giving life to the character she portrayed...
Filmed in Franco's Spain, "The Night Heaven Fell" is a sunburned film noir, beautifully photographed in Color and CinemaScope...
Bardot plays Ursula, a beautiful convent girl vacationing in a small village in rural Spain where her patient and passive Aunt Florentine and her rude uncle, the Count Ribera (Pepe Nieto), live... Upon her arrival, she's hunted by the handsome and forceful Lamberto (Stephen Boyd), who's looking to avenge the death of his poor sister...
The sexually repressed Florentine desires intensely Lamberto who kills her husband, seduces her, and escapes with her rebellious, capricious and highly provocative niece Ursula...
The air of harshness is at the heat of all of the main characters: Ursula's challenging sexuality; Count Ribera's lecherous advances; Lamberto's acts of vengeance; and most of all, the unusual beauty and natural charm of Florentine, played by the great Italian actress Alida Valli, from Carol Reed's The Third Man.
There's a scene in the film that takes place during the Count's funeral where we see Alida Valli stopping in the village streets and a veil covers her face... In front of Boyd, she takes off her dark veil, and stares, in silence, at his face... Her new feminist disposition was loading all her unconscious feelings...
In the fifties, Bardot emerged as a new type of sex symbol, flashing her sexual exuberance... Her performances as a child of nature responding to the call of sensuality, were a deliciously strange elixir to all of us growing up in that time...
Clothed in a breakaway towel, décolletage, bathing suits, or nude, this truly luscious coquette was enough to drive us into a kaleidoscope of dynamic excitement...
Along with Francois Truffaut, Louis Malle, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda, Vadim was one of the founding members of the revolutionary French New Wave, to push the sexual archetype...
His subsequent films revealed him to be an accomplished European filmmaker with an eye for visual beauty and decorative elegance, but in content, his films have often been superficial and lacking in narrative strength... Sexual relations have been a recurrent theme in his films, the plot of which have often revolved around the undisputed beauty of his succession of wives - Brigitte Bardot, Annette Stroyberg, and Jane Fonda...
"The Night Heaven Fell" is the second collaboration between Vadim and Bardot... Vadim seems to have attempted to recapture the freshness and essence of the 'B.B.' he had helped to shape, but the re-creation escaped him, despite the careful choice of Albert Vidalie's novel and the casting of Stephen Boyd as leading man...
Bardot's innocently natural mannerisms had disappeared, and it seemed that she no longer needed Vadim to make use of her talents as an accomplished actress... Claude Autant-Lara succeeded much more with his film, 'Love Is My Profession,' playing Brigitte opposite Jean Gabin and Edwige Feuillere... Bardot came off as more than a sexual image, her persona giving life to the character she portrayed...
Filmed in Franco's Spain, "The Night Heaven Fell" is a sunburned film noir, beautifully photographed in Color and CinemaScope...
Bardot plays Ursula, a beautiful convent girl vacationing in a small village in rural Spain where her patient and passive Aunt Florentine and her rude uncle, the Count Ribera (Pepe Nieto), live... Upon her arrival, she's hunted by the handsome and forceful Lamberto (Stephen Boyd), who's looking to avenge the death of his poor sister...
The sexually repressed Florentine desires intensely Lamberto who kills her husband, seduces her, and escapes with her rebellious, capricious and highly provocative niece Ursula...
The air of harshness is at the heat of all of the main characters: Ursula's challenging sexuality; Count Ribera's lecherous advances; Lamberto's acts of vengeance; and most of all, the unusual beauty and natural charm of Florentine, played by the great Italian actress Alida Valli, from Carol Reed's The Third Man.
There's a scene in the film that takes place during the Count's funeral where we see Alida Valli stopping in the village streets and a veil covers her face... In front of Boyd, she takes off her dark veil, and stares, in silence, at his face... Her new feminist disposition was loading all her unconscious feelings...
In the fifties, Bardot emerged as a new type of sex symbol, flashing her sexual exuberance... Her performances as a child of nature responding to the call of sensuality, were a deliciously strange elixir to all of us growing up in that time...
Clothed in a breakaway towel, décolletage, bathing suits, or nude, this truly luscious coquette was enough to drive us into a kaleidoscope of dynamic excitement...
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Batdot and Boyd SIZZLE
11 July 2000
While there is one raw sequence of frank sensuality between Bardot and Boyd, the impact of this film lies in its subtle underplayed performances--Alida Valli gives one of her best portrayals as the ambivalent rival aunt to Bardot in conquering Boyd... the stud of the piece.. Only Vadim could have such a role reversal in late 50's cinema! Excellent scoreby Auric and sumptious location photography. Bravo!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Loved It!!
22 April 2002
This was a very interesting film. The dynamics between the main characters was very intriguing. While she may not have been the greatest actress of her time, Brigitte Bardot was good, and she is soooo beautiful. I found Bardot to be very expressive vs. the rather wooden Stephen Boyd. The scenery was beautiful, and the movie was a pleasure to watch. Highly recommend this for any Bardot fan.
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