Normally, when one says “BB” in France, one refers to sex symbol turned animal activist Brigitte Bardot (the fact that her initials are pronounced “bébé”, the French word for “baby”, doesn’t hurt), but for some, the letters stand for Blues Brothers, a movie that has been hugely successful in this country. For many who were teenagers when the film came out in 1980, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd represent a kind of romantic post-sixties America, along with Harley Davidson bikes and old-fashioned glass Coca-Cola bottles. Here is a closeup of John “Jake” Belushi singing in the rain next to an old Texaco pump with dubious arithmetic on the rue Meynadier in Cannes, the whole thing a store display, of course. I would have preferred the Brigitte Bardot of the fifties...