After being charmed by That Naughty Girl (1956-also reviewed) I decided to check if I had any other 1956 films waiting to be played starring BB. Curious from this being the most obscure of the remaining French titles she did in '56, led to me meeting the bride:

View on the film:

Visibly appearing loved up, when cuddling a cute kitten, BB gives a great performance as Chouchou, whose naive country girl comedic dialogue BB performs with relish,as Chouchou becomes increasingly frustrated by the demands of the magazine.

Mentioning Cinderella in the dialogue, the screenplay by Juliette Saint-Giniez & Rififi (1955-also reviewed) cinematographer Philippe Agostini initially make their adaptation of Odette Joyeux's (who two years later married Agostini) novel appear light and fluffy,via crisp Rom-Com exchanges between Chouchou and fellow model Patrice (played with a debonair swagger by Jean-Francois Calve) at photo shoots for the magazine.

Cutting into the cake, the writers serve up a slice of bouncy satirical Comedy, ripping into the staged photos and fake stories that the glossy celebrity magazines are filled with, as editor Judith (played with a snappy Screwball Comedy manner by Micheline Presle) attempts to snap Patrice and Chouchou into a wedding, in order to increase sales.

Taking Chouchou out of the countryside and into the a life of glamour, director Pierre Gaspard-Huit and The Old Guard (1960-also reviewed) cinematographer Louis Page weave a whimsical atmosphere of glittery long panning shots towards Chouchou taking a fancy to Patrice, spinning to pristine close-ups on the demands of Judith being broken,on Chouchou's bridal night.

Bardot is as aggressively irresponsible as she is shamelessly female... Vadim knew how to exploit her charms... He made her a living, breathing sexual fantasy, an object of desire, a symbol of sexual liberty, and as he puts it: "The unrealizable dream of all married men."

However, filmmaker Pierre Gaspard-Huit did not understand that Bardot's image had been permanently altered, and cast her the same year of "And God Created Woman," in rather dull film, in which Bardot played an adorably naive and provincial girl metamorphosed into a cover girl on the lookout for her Prince Charming…

The hottest most provocative new bombshell had been woefully miscast as a blushing, sweet little thing, which was really "too much."

Luckily, 1957 began with "Une Parisienne," which saw Michel Boisrond, her friend and ally since the film "Cette Sacrée Gamine" assign her role of a dynamic and fun-loving woman

This early Brigitte Bardot movie is not special in any cinematographic way, but the story is not bad and Brigitte is quite enchanting. Many situations cleverly call for her to walk around in her underwear or night dress. This kind of movies gave other countries, especially America and England, the reason to refer to any daring movie from the continent as a 'French Movie'. All together, not a movie mile-stone, but not a bad flick either.