Vadim
earned his place in film history with his first feature,
And God Created Woman (1956) which starred
his then-wife Brigitte Bardot. His Les Liaisons Dangereuses
had some unlikely champions
British artist Francis Bacon among them. Vadim also
directed the comic strip fantasy Barbarella
(1968) with Jane Fonda.
"I'm
living but I don't know if I'm a legend," Moreau declared
in her husky voice when asked how she copes with her status
as la grande dame of European cinema. Asked to look back
on some of the films in which she has appeared, Moreau suggested
that with "the distance of time" she was able to forget
about herself "and appreciate the talent and craft of the
director... but I didn't do so badly."
