Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris (Contempt). Through video footage of Bardot, interviews with the paparazzi, and still photos of Bardot from magazine covers and elsewhere, director Rozier investigates some of the ramifications of international movie stardom, specifically the loss of privacy to the paparazzi. The film explains the shooting of the film on the island of Capri, and the photographers' valiant, even foolishly dangerous, attempts to get a photograph of Bardot.
Direction
Rozier turns exploitation footage into accidental self-critique.
Cinematography
Godard's Capri locations hijacked by real-life thriller staging.
Editing
Magazine covers, boat chases, and Bardot's exhaustion collide.
Director
Jacques Rozier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short essentially birthed the modern 'making-of' documentary format, but accidentally captured something darker: the moment celebrity culture became predatory infrastructure.
Rozier originally set out to document Le Mépris production logistics; Bardot's open hostility toward photographers hijacked the film's purpose, turning industrial documentary into unwitting media criticism.
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