Early Brigitte Bardot film where she's a student at a conservatoire, singing dubbed opera. Jean Marais the the head of the school, a singer. Bardot has the hots for Marais who is married - and also flirts with another student, Isabelle Pia.
The set up for this isn't bad - lives and loves of people at a music school; you've got sex, and betrayal and musical interludes, etc etc. But there isn't much drama. I kept expecting a suicide or murder or big confrontation but it never comes.
Marais is ideally cast as an aging teacher who is still handsome. Bardot is very cute and appealing. The film was directed by Marc Allegret, who also wrote the script with Mr Bardot, Roger Vadim. They didn't do a very good job. I get the feeling they were unsure which way to go - not funny or charming enough to be a comedy, not enough happens for it to be drama.
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