AND GOD CREATED WOMAN: Brigitte Bardot Tribute at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Friday 12. June at 18:30 - 20:05
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
This week I'm celebrating actors, directors, editors and artists who are no longer with us, but whose work continues to shape the films we watch and love. Some became icons. Others worked quietly behind the camera. Together, they helped make cinema what it is today.
I'm showing AND GOD CREATED WOMAN this week to honour Bardot's singular legacy. This particular performance catapulted her into a global phenomenon almost overnight, while cementing Saint-Tropez as the international capital of youth, freedom, and Mediterranean excess.
Roger Vadim | 1956 | France | 1h35m | Presented in the original French audio with English subtitles
It’s easy to forget how shocking And God Created Woman was when it first appeared.
Today, audiences often arrive expecting a historical curiosity. A famous time capsule from 1950s France. Then the film starts, and something unexpected happens: it still feels completely alive. As Juliette, an orphan defying the conservative morals of Saint-Tropez, Brigitte Bardot doesn't merely perform sexuality in the polished, carefully packaged Hollywood style of the era. She is spontaneous, impulsive, and entirely uninterested in asking for permission.
What makes the film feel remarkably modern isn't its social politics or sexual mores, which remain products of their time, but Bardot’s raw kinetic energy. She belongs to a different cinematic era entirely, moving through the frame with a wildness that anticipates the French New Wave that would soon follow, rather than the rigid studio productions where she cut her teeth.
Some stars are famous because they are beautiful and others because they are talented. Every now and then, someone arrives who is simply impossible to look away from. Bardot belongs firmly in that category. Long before celebrity became a global industry, Bardot reshaped the very architecture of stardom in postwar Europe.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00,.serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us:
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FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
