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Brigitte Bardot may be speaking on camera in a new documentary about her life, but director Alain Berliner says she’s still as mysterious as ever.

The new doc, simply titled Bardot, was shown recently at the Cannes Film Festival. It looks at Bardot’s rise to worldwide fame, her sudden retirement in the early 1970s, and her passion for animal rights.

Alain Berliner, known for Ma Vie en Rose, directed the film and told Variety that he wanted Bardot to tell her own story. “Not having an outside narrator, but have Brigitte Bardot be the one who tells the story,” he said.

Now 90 years old, Bardot still lives in her quiet home by the sea in Saint-Tropez. She let the camera into her private world, opening the doors of her estate where she lives surrounded by animals, dogs, donkeys, geese, and horses.

While she speaks openly about her love for animals,...

Brigitte Bardot reflects on the stardom she escaped from more than 50 years ago in “Bardot” the doc about the iconic French actor, singer and animal rights activist directed by “Ma Vie en Rose” helmer Alain Berliner that recently launched from the Cannes Film Festival.

But Bardot, who in 1973 retired at the age of 39 having become the first French movie star to achieve worldwide fame, remains “a very mysterious person,” says Berliner. Still, she opened up enough in the doc for Berliner to feel that he managed to accomplish his vision of “not having an outside narrator, but have Brigitte Bardot be the one who tells the story,” he adds.

Now aged 90, Bardot opens up the gates of her La Madrague estate in Saint-Tropez, where she lives surrounded by horses, dogs, geese and donkeys and speaks candidly, especially when it comes to her love for animals. But she also speaks for...

Exclusive: Production has wrapped in Wales on boxing crime-drama Salvable, starring Toby Kebbell (For All Mankind), Shia Labeouf (Fury) and James Cosmo (Game Of Thrones). Above is a first-look image.

Metro International Entertainment is handling worldwide sales and has pre-sold the film in a raft of territories including to Capelight in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Nos Lusomundo in Portugal, Discovery in Former Yugoslavia, Violator Cinema in Cis, and Phoenicia in the Middle East.

Rounding out the cast is Kila Lord Cassidy (The Wonder), Elaine Cassidy (The Wonder), Michael Socha (Papillon), Aiysha Hart (Mogul Mowgli), Nell Hudson (Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Barry Ward (Extra Ordinary). Former World Champion boxer Carl Froch has been training Kebbell and Labeouf at Penarth ABC boxing gym and will have a cameo in the film.

Kebbel plays Sal, aka “The Bull”, a washed-up boxer on the brink of 40 who is fighting more than his opponents. With...