Les Biches (1968 film)

Les Biches

Film poster for Le 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
Editing by Jacques Gaillard
Release date(s) France:
March 22, 1968 (1968-03-22)[1]
Italy:
August 30, 1968 (1968-08-30)[1]
Running time 95 minutes
Country France
Italy
Language French

Les Biches (The Does) is a 1968 French film starring Stephane 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]

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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.

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