Come Dance with Me!

On the surface, the young marriage between dentist Hervé Dandieu (Henri Vidal) and his attractive wife Virginie (Brigitte Bardot) seems happy. However, after a heated argument, Hervé ends up at a dance school looking for distraction, where he meets the charming teacher Anita Florès (Dawn Addams). They kiss. But the supposedly fleeting flirtation gets out of hand when Anita tries to blackmail Hervé with compromising photos taken by her boyfriend Léon (Serge Gainsbourg). When the suspicious Virginie follows her husband to one of his meetings one day, she finds Anita murdered—and Hervé becomes a suspect in the murder. In search of the truth, crime thriller fan Virginie pretends to be a dance teacher and uncovers intrigue, jealousy, and dangerous secrets during her investigations... A mixture of crime thriller and light comedy, with the entertainment aspect clearly predominating, Michel Boisrond's direction relies above all on Brigitte Bardot's charming charisma. The elegantly produced film is considered a stylish document of the late 1950s – and a typical Bardot vehicle with glamour and lightness. "[Brigitte Bardot] has honestly earned her reputation as a style icon of the 1960s. With her signature tulle skirts and accessories, she is ravishingly elegant and sexy at the same time. [..] Despite the serious situation of the protagonists, humor is an important element of the crime comedy. The quarrels between Hervé and his son-in-law are extremely entertaining, and Virginie's feigned naivety is also charming. ‘Voulez-vous danser avec moi?’ is surprisingly permissive: Virginie recounts that she was in a strip club, and almost all of the characters have multiple erotic relationships at the same time." (Tzveta Bozadjieva, on: filmreporter.de)