Brigitte Bardot may live a reclusive life in her home above the bay of Saint-Tropez but she continues to make headlines in France.
Her face has been staring out from posters on buses and billboards advertising a much-hyped series on her life to be aired by France 2, the state broadcaster, from next week.
The six-part series, titled Bardot, is described as an insight into an actress who rose to stardom, helping to transform gender relations, sexuality and fashion in postwar France and across much of the West along the way.
Julia de Nunez as the young Brigitte Bardot in the six-part series
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“You can say that she was the first influencer,” said Danièle Thompson, who directed the series with her son, Christopher.
Yet the programme, which traces ten years of Bardot’s career during the 1950s,
