A Coeur Joie (aka Two Weeks In September) (1967)

A high fashion model (Brigitte Bardot) leaves her lover (Jean Rochefort) in France to go to London for an extended fashion shoot. It's there she falls in love with a young geologist (Laurent Terzieff). Directed by Serge Bourguignon, whose film SUNDAYS AND CYBELE (1962) won the best foreign language film Oscar. His film career didn't fare very well after that and he made only three more feature films before he essentially walked away from directing in the late 1960s. If this ridiculous mess of a movie (it's dead on arrival) is any indication, perhaps it's just as well. Brigitte Bardot was a phenomenal screen presence but she's left adrift playing this aimless mannequin who can't seem to make up her mind. Paired with the charmless Terzieff, there's zero chemistry and all the montages of the two frolicking on the beach, roaming the Scotland countryside, making love on a bed of hay etc. only serves to emphasize how trivial the whole thing is. With James Robertson Justice and playing a fashion photographer, Michael Sarne who would later turn to directing and made the notorious MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (1970).