Les Biches

1968 [FRENCH]

Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 3937 3.9K

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Director

Claude Chabrol Photo
Claude Chabrol

Top cast

Jacqueline Sassard Photo
Jacqueline Sassard as Why
Stéphane Audran Photo
Stéphane Audran as Frédérique
Jean-Louis Trintignant Photo
Jean-Louis Trintignant as Paul Thomas
Laure Valmée Photo
Laure Valmée as
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871.19 MB
1280*694
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 6
1.58 GB
1920*1040
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
25 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

Claude Chabrol :phase 2.

With "les biches" ,Chabrol entered his second and most fruitful period:the first one encompassed such classics as "les cousins" and "à double tour" but his formula began to wear thin in the mid -sixties with failures like "l'oeil du malin" "Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kah" and the abysmal "le scandale".Stephane Audran ,his then-wife starred in all these movies (roughly 1968-1973)bar two ("la decade prodigieuse" and "docteur popaul") and their spellbinding mysterious atmosphere owes a lot to her."Les biches " has not worn that much well though:at the time ,lesbians were not so common in the movies ,and of course they always had a bad end -see also Mark Rydell's "the fox" or William Wyler's "the children's hour"for that matter-.What remains today is not much :only the scene showing Jacqueline Sassard's trying to become the woman she loves by taking her clothes ,her jewels ,her make-up and her voice is still impressive today;what remains falls into the trap of triteness:the man who comes between the two girls ,the chic bourgeois life in Saint-Tropez under the snow,the two would be comic reliefs -who are not funny at all-...."Les biches" is a must for Chabrol 's fans because it inaugurates his golden era ,which would give such classics as "la femme infidèle" or "le boucher".But the others can easily do without it.
Reviewed by jotix100 8 / 10

Reviewed by lastliberal 7 / 10

Champagne! The artillery of pleasure!

If you are looking for action, erotic or otherwise, this is not a film you will enjoy.It is a simple pleasure of color and emotion.The plot is simple: A rich woman (Stéphane Audran - Babette's Feast, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) takes a liking to a poor young girl (Jacqueline Sassard). A man (Jean-Louis Trintignant - Z, Red) enters the picture, and friction results. That's it.But, don't let the simplicity fool you. There is an elegant dance among the characters as emotional games are played. It is the dance amid the beauty of St. Tropez that is the pleasure.
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