The Female (1959 film)

La femme et le pantin / Femmina
Directed by	Julien Duvivier
Written by	Julien Duvivier Albert Valentin Jean Aurenche Screenplay Marcel Achard Dialogues
Based on	La Femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs
Produced by	Christine Gouze-Rénal Fred Surin
Starring	Brigitte Bardot
Cinematography	Roger Hubert
Edited by	Jacqueline Sadoul
Music by	Jean Wiener José Rocca
Release dates	13 February 1959 (1959-02-13) (France) 4 March 1959 (1959-03-04) (Italy)
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	French
Box office	2,453,892 admissions (France)

The Female (French: La femme et le pantin, lit. 'The Woman and the Puppet', Italian: Femmina), released in the United Kingdom and the Philippines as A Woman Like Satan, is a 1959 French-Italian drama film 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

• Brigitte Bardot – Éva Marchand
• António Vilar – Don Mateo Diaz
• Lila Kedrova – Manuela
• Daniel Ivernel – Berthier
• Darío Moreno – Arbadajian
• Jacques Mauclair – Stanislas Marchand
• Jess Hahn – 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 during the Seville Fair.

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)

External links

• The Female at IMDb
• The Female at AllMovie