LES BICHES - CLAUDE CHABROL - STEPHANE AUDRAN - JACQUELINE SASSARD

Les Biches is a French New Wave film by Claude Chabrol - starring the beautiful & very cold Stéphane Audran as well as the innocent Jacqueline Sassard...

Les Biches (1968)

Claude Chabrol's suspenseful and erotic story of two lesbian lovers--Frederique (Stephane Audran), a wealthy and elegant woman, and Why (Jaqueline Sassard), a young bohemian who earns a living making charcoal drawings on the sidewalks of Paris. Frederique, who has already seduced Why and dragged her off to a lovely St. Tropez villa, upsets the balance when she next seduces architect Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant). Why loves them both and cannot bear the thought of being left behind when Frederique and Paul run off to Paris together. One of the few Chabrol films available on videotape (under the title BAD GIRLS), LES BICHES features the director's favorite lead actress, Audran (then his wife), in yet another situation of suspense that, while Hitchcockian at its root, is pure Chabrol. The setup is a familiar one--a love triangle--but Chabrol's delicate treatment and highly controlled direction make this one of his finest efforts.

Director/Writer: Claude Chabrol
Writer: Paul Gegauff
Cinematographer: Jean Rabier
Music: Pierre Jansen

Cast: Stephane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nane Germon, Serge Bento, Dominique Zardi, Henri Attal, Claude Chabrol