Viva Maria!

Two of the most beautiful women in the European cinema of the 1960s -- Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau -- team up under the direction of Louis Malle in this engaging comedy/adventure. Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley (Bardot) is the daughter of an Irish political dissident who has traveled to Latin ...more

Louis Malle's first officially credited collaboration with the ingenious Jean-Claude Carrière never sinks below the level of sheer charm and good humor. But as Carrière affirmed years later in an interview, Viva Maria! suffers slightly from over-length and an overabundance of influences (contemporary feminism, children's European fantasy adventure yarns, tall tales, anticlericalism, cabaret life and music, revolutionary politics). It may be that rare film with too many assets; at 119 minutes, ...more