Goodbye, Brigitte - the National Museum of Cinema pays tribute to the French star

She is one of the stars immortalized by Angelo Frontoni and featured in the current exhibition "Pazza Idea. Beyond '68: Pop Icons in Angelo Frontoni's Photographs". The exhibition will last at the Mole Antonelliana until March 9, 2026.

"Brigitte Bardot was an iconic actress, beautiful and unrivaled, a symbol of glamour, freedom, and rebellion in the 1950s and 1960s," says Enzo Ghigo, president of the beautiful National Museum of Cinema . "She was a diva in every sense of the word, her style marked fashion and influenced her generation, embodying the independent and nonconformist feeling that was increasingly gaining ground among women of her generation. We will also remember her for her strong and passionate commitment to animal rights, to which she devoted herself with love in recent decades."

"In the exhibition dedicated to her, photographer Angelo Frontoni depicts Brigitte Bardot as a Botticelli Venus, as a goddess descended from heaven," comments Carlo Chatrian, director of the National Museum of Cinema. "Her unique beauty, yet paradigmatic of an era, has been reflected in many films and roles that have remained imprinted in our collective imagination, first and foremost in "Et Dieu... créa la femme" (1956), directed by her husband Roger Vadim, a film which made her an international star."