Les Biches
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 25, 2003
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stéphane Audran & Jean-Louis Trintignant | |
Performer: | Jacqueline Sassard | |
Directed by | Claude Chabrol | |
Screenplay by | Paul Gégauff & Claude Chabrol | |
Composition by | Pierre Jensen | |
Cinematography by | Jean Rabier |
Entertainment Reviews:
The love of the girls loses its tension and both passions are left unbalanced, leading to the movie's deterioration. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
What is extraordinary is the portrayal of a kind of deviate Dolce Vita, in which the waif comes to regard her former lovers, male and female, as parental figures, to whom she becomes quite filially attached.
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New York Times
Rating: A --
This is top-notch filmmaking by a director who when he is on the mark is as good as anyone in the business.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The whole film has a sleek, well-fed look to it, as though Chabrol himself were purring with satisfaction at his own dexterity. As well, on the whole, he might.
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The Spectator
Les Biches, a clearing of the decks for Chabrol, ushered in six years of great filmmaking.
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n+1
...A tough psychological study with assured use of the wide screen... -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Claude Chabrol's Les Biches depends almost entirely on style, and as style it succeeds. He is not so much interested in his story as in how to tell it.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
Claude Chabrol crafts a complex social allegory in LES BICHES, a subtle and intricate tale of desire, despair, and murder. Released in March of 1968, just months before the May 1968 student revolts in Paris, Chabrol filtered the ever-increasing class struggle in France into the compelling tale of glamorous Frédérique (Stephane Audran), who picks up poverty-stricken and beautiful Why on the streets of Paris, promptly seducing her and whisking her away to a new life of wealthy bohemia in St. Tropez. As Why quickly assumes the role of Frédérique's protegée and understudy, a complication arrives in the form of Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a handsome young architect with whom Why immediately falls into unrequited love. Frédérique confronts the interloper herself, falls in love with him, and jets off to Paris with him, leaving Why to stew in her rejection and abandonment. The suspense builds slowly when the three lovers forge a strange and erotically charged circular relationship. The décor of Frédérique's Cote D'azur villa, filled with hunting memorabilia, weapons, and muted colors, heightens the tense and underlying power struggle that slowly propels Why to obsession and madness in the film's haunting and detached climax.
Keywords:
Classic
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Mystery
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Romance
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Murder
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Love Triangle
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Recommended
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New Wave (Film)
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Theatrical Release
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Bisexuality
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Essential Cinema
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 47,055
- UPC: 825307905298
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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