Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

• Jean-Frédéric ThibaultDirector
• Jean-Frédéric ThibaultWriter
• Arnaud XainteDirector

• Ava GardnerSelf (archive footage)
• Frank SinatraSelf (archive footage)
• Mickey RooneySelf (archive footage)
• Artie ShawSelf (archive footage)
• Ernest HemingwaySelf (archive footage)
• John HustonSelf (archive footage)
• Nicole CalfanSelf
• MIchael GaradySelf