| La Femme et le Pantin / Femmina | |
| Director: | Julien Duvivier |
| Producer: | Christine Gouze-Rénal Fred Surin |
| Starring: | Brigitte Bardot |
| Music: | Jean Wiener José Rocca |
| Cinematography: | Roger Hubert |
| Editing: | Jacqueline Sadoul |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Country: | France Italy |
| Language: | French |
| Gross: | 2,453,892 admissions (France)[1] |
The Female (French: '''La Femme et le pantin'''|lit=The Woman and the Puppet, Italian: '''Femmina'''), released in the United Kingdom as A Woman Like Satan, is a 1959 French-Italian drama film directed by Julien Duvivier. It is the fourth film adaptation of the novel La Femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs.
Mateo Diaz is a wealthy gentleman who loves and respects his wife but no longer finds her attractive because she is paralysed. He pursues Eva Marchand but she does not respond to his advances.
Brigitte Bardot wrote in her autobiography that although the crew would call director Julien Duvivier "Dudu," the set was not harmonious. She also described the difficulty of filming in the heat of Seville during the Seville Fair.[2]