A Very Private Affair

A Very Private Affair (Vie Privée)
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Louis Malle
Produced by	Christine Gouze-Renal
Written by	Louis Malle Jean Ferry Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Starring	Brigitte Bardot Marcello Mastroianni Nicolas Bataille Elenore Hirt
Music by	Fiorenzo Carpi
Cinematography	Henri Dacae
Distributed by	Pathe Films
Release date	1962
Running time	103 minutes
Language	French
Box office	1,879,668 admissions (France)

A Very Private Affair (French: Vie privée) is a 1962 French film directed by Louis Malle and starring Brigitte Bardot.

Brigitte Bardot, the French actress/bombshell of the 1960s, stars in this semi-biographical film of her life. Eighteen-year-old Jill enjoys a comfortable upper-class existence with her widowed mother in Switzerland and develops a crush on Fabio, a friend's husband. She heads off to Paris to become a model and dancer. Soon, Jill is discovered by a film producer and made into a huge movie star. The pressures and annoyances of fame take their toll on her and she returns to Switzerland to recuperate. Jill has an affair with the now divorced Fabio. The press continues to hound her, leading to more complications in her private life.

According to MGM, records the film lost $128,000.