Viva Maria!

N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Three vintage borderless photographs, including one double-weight and two single-weight, from the set of the 1965 French film. One photograph showing director Louis Malle relaxing, with a camera crew to his right, one photograph showing Malle with actresses Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau in conversation with Malle looking on, and the final photograph showing Malle and Bardot during filming on location. All photographs with manuscript ink annotations to the verso.

Director Louis Malle's sixth film, a humorous and subversive gender-swapped twist on the buddy movie, about two women named Maria who enjoy a variety of unusual experiences together, including inventing striptease for a traveling circus, and leading a socialist revolutionary uprising.

Set in 1900s Central America, shot on location in Mexico.

Two photographs approximately 9.5 x 7.25 inches, one photograph 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

[Book #152112]