Thursday, January 27, 2011

Le Biches - 1968 * * * 1/2


One of the things that I'm really liking about Chabrol is how he uses most of the same people in his films. I feel like I have become quite a good judge of spotting people from his other movies and it's quite fun as well. Stephane Audran this time plays a beautiful but bored woman who picks up a lonely girl that she is attracted to in Paris and whisks her off to her holiday home for some romance and fun. Once there however, the girl ( nicknamed 'Why' by the people living on the house) has an affair with a man that Audran is interested in, then all hell breaks loose. Not a brilliant film but strangely eerie in that Chabrol way with some excellent acting of course from Audran who is fast becoming one of my favourite French stars. The mandatory twist in the ending is also typically bizarre.

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