Bad Girls

1968, Drama, 1h 44m

13 Reviews 500+ Ratings

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Movie Info

The door to a labyrinth of trysts and betrayals is opened when the wealthy and bisexual Frederique (Stéphane Audran) seduces young Parisian street artist Why (Jacqueline Sassard) and then takes her to a villa in St. Tropez to spend the winter. There, architect Paul Thomas (Jean-Louis Trintignant) becomes involved with both women. When Frederique realizes that Why is deeply in love with Paul Thomas, she becomes envious, and begins a series of erotic mind games involving all three lovers.
  • Rating:
    R
  • Genre:
    Drama
  • Original Language:
    French (Canada)
  • Director:
    Claude Chabrol
  • Producer:
    André Génovès
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     original
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Cast & Crew

Stéphane Audran
Frédérique
Jacqueline Sassard
Why
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Paul Thomas
Claude Chabrol
Director
André Génovès
Producer
Pierre Jansen
Original Music
Jean Rabier
Cinematographer
Jacques Gaillard
Film Editing
Marc Berthier
Set Decoration
Michel Albray
Costume Design
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Full Review… Renata Adler New York Times Full Review… Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Full Review… Paul Schrader Los Angeles Free Press Full Review… Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Full Review… Penelope Houston The Spectator Full Review… Manny Farber Artforum Full Review… A.S. Hamrah n+1 Full Review… Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Full Review… Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly Full Review… Angela Baldassarre Sympatico.ca Full Review… Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Full Review… Michael Szymanski Zap2it.com
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Audience Reviews for Bad Girls

  • Apr 15, 2008
    A 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.
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