And God Created Woman (1988 film) And God Created Woman (1988 film) And God Created Woman is a 1988 film directed by Roger Vadim and starring Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano and Frank Langella. It has the same title as the 1956 French film "Et Dieu… créa la femme" ("And God created woman") starring Brigitte Bardot, also directed by Vadim, but has a completely different story. Robin Shea (Rebecca De Mornay) is a convict in a New Mexico prison. She manages to escape, but mistakenly hitches a ride in the limo of James Tiernan (Frank Langella), a politician who was visiting the prison as part of
Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman a priest a murder she committed and frankly details her past sexual encounters. Roger Vadim said in an interview after the film came out: My attitude to women is accepted today in a way that it wasn't when I started out as director. But today woman overreact - they pretend to be free on an intellectual and sexual level but because of our Christian traditions sex is always associated with guilt. Now however it's possible for a woman to have the same relationship with sex as a man - a man who is a lover can be a Don Juan