The movies have just seen the light. But nobody for a second imagines that these flickering images, today so loaded with emotion, have just given birth to a new art form - the seventh. The public adores it. In the early thirties, a huge surprise, the screen can not only be seen but heard. Soon, all women want to dress like Danielle Darrieux and hum songs, the way she does during occupied France's darkest hours, when French people's hearts had to beat in silence, like the lovers turned into statues in The Devil's Envoy.
Stars take second place in a director's world.
He also rushes to the defence of an unknown and unanimously panned starlet, Brigitte Bardot. And God created Woman. She shocked, not so much because she was wallowing in sin but because she conveyed the idea that she could wallow in sin if she just felt like it. This attitude of total freedom was unbearable to the very bourgeoisie she belonged to. Bardot destroyed the heavy post-war moralizing attitudes.