'Private Life') is a 1962 French romantic drama film directed by Louis Malle and starring Brigitte Bardot.

[2] Eighteen-year-old Jill enjoys a privileged upper-class existence with her widowed mother in a country house outside Geneva and plays at becoming a dancer.

Falling secretly in love with her best friend's husband Fabio, a handsome and gifted Italian, she heads off to Paris, becoming a model and then getting into films.

On the opening night she creeps out onto the roof to watch but is spotted by a paparazzo and, startled by the flash of his camera, slips off.

According to a 1963 report by CNC France, Bardot's two films, The Truth and A Very Private Affair, generated a combined net profit of $640,000 for their distributors in the United States.