Les Biches (film)

Les Biches
Film poster for Les Biches
Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Produced by	André Genovès
Written by	Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff
Starring	Stéphane Audran Jacqueline Sassard Jean-Louis Trintignant Nane Germon Henri Attal Dominique Zardi
Music by	Pierre Jansen
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Edited by	Jacques Gaillard
Release dates	March 22, 1968 (1968-03-22) (France)^[1] August 30, 1968 (1968-08-30) (Italy)^[1]
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France Italy
Language	French

Les Biches (The Does) is a 1968 French-Italian film starring Stéphane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Jacqueline Sassard. It was directed by Claude Chabrol, and depicts a tortured lesbian relationship between the Audran and Sassard characters. Audran won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] The film had a total of 627,164 admissions in France.^[3]

Plot

Frédérique is a rich and beautiful woman who picks up a female street artist called "Why". It is December and they go to her villa in Saint Tropez, which is inhabited by a couple of odd gay men. Both women fall for the local architect Paul Thomas. However Why says that she is not interested in him, so Frédérique invites him to move into the villa.

Cast

Jean-Louis Trintignant - Paul Thomas
Jacqueline Sassard - Why
Stéphane Audran - Frédérique
Nane Germon - Violetta
Serge Bento - Bookseller
Henri Frances
Henri Attal - Robèque
Dominique Zardi - Riais

References

1 2 German, Yuri. "Overview: Les Biches". Allmovie. Retrieved November 18, 2009.
↑ "Berlinale 1968: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=9087

External links

Les Biches at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Claude Chabrol

Le Beau Serge (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
Web of Passion (1959)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Wise Guys (1961)
The Third Lover (1962)
Landru (1963)
Ophélia (1963)
Code Name: Tiger (1964)
Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha (1965)
Six in Paris (segment "La Muette") (1965)
Our Agent Tiger (1965)
Line of Demarcation (1966)
The Champagne Murders (1967)
The Road to Corinth (1967)
Les Biches (1968)
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
This Man Must Die (1969)
The Butcher (1970)
The Breach (1970)
Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
Dr. Popaul (1972)
Wedding in Blood (1973)
The Nada Gang (1974)
Pleasure Party (1975)
Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
Death Rite (1976)
The Twist (1976)
Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
Blood Relatives (1978)
Violette Nozière (1978)
The Horse of Pride (1980)
The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
The Blood of Others (1984)
Chicken with Vinegar (1985)
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
Masks (1987)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Story of Women (1988)
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Dr. M (1990)
Madame Bovary (1991)
Betty (1992)
The Eye of Vichy (1993)
Hell (1994)
La Cérémonie (1995)
The Swindle (1997)
The Color of Lies (1999)
Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
The Bridesmaid (2004)
Comedy of Power (2006)
A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
Bellamy (2009)

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