
Bad Girls
1968, Drama, 1h 44m
13 Reviews 500+ RatingsYou might also like
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Frédérique
Paul Thomas
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Critic Reviews for Bad Girls
All Critics (13) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (3)
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What is extraordinary is the portrayal of a kind of deviate Dolce Vita, in which the waif comes to regard her former lovers, male and female, as parental figures, to whom she becomes quite filially attached.
May 9, 2005 | Full Review… -
Claude Chabrol's Les Biches depends almost entirely on style, and as style it succeeds. He is not so much interested in his story as in how to tell it.
October 23, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
It passes over us with the full weight of its two hours. Les Biches is a sleeper, that is, it's soporific.
July 1, 2020 | Full Review… -
The love of the girls loses its tension and both passions are left unbalanced, leading to the movie's deterioration. [Full Review in Spanish]
July 23, 2019 | Full Review… -
The whole film has a sleek, well-fed look to it, as though Chabrol himself were purring with satisfaction at his own dexterity. As well, on the whole, he might.
July 11, 2019 | Full Review… -
It's amazing how Raoul Coutard's camera can transform this puerile conceit into a singingly crisp image.
June 18, 2019 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Bad Girls
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Apr 15, 2008A rich businesswoman (Stéphane Audran) takes a homeless street artist (Jacqueline Sassard) under her wing, and initiates a twisted and deadly ménage-a-trois when her protégée's affair with an architect (Jean-Louis Trintignant) threatens the status quo. Such is Claude Chabrol's mastery at this sort of thing that he is able to reveal latent malice and emotional turbulence without ever once resorting to histrionics, and to create an intoxicating, erotically charged atmosphere without ever resorting to sexual explicitness. Although there's a palpable sense of impending tragedy throughout, I found the climactic 'Epilogue' oddly unsatisfying, lacking the sound, psychological underpinning of "Le Boucher", for example. Both of the female leads are fantastic; Trintignant avoids playing the stereotypical, sleazy seducer, but his character is comparatively underdeveloped and lacks depth. Jean Rabier's photography and Pierre Jansen's score are both outstanding.Stephen M Super Reviewer
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