Les Biches

Lesbian desire, a threeway with Jean-Louis Trintignant, and a touch of the sinister from Chabrol: it sounds much more satisfying on paper than it actually is in this film. It takes a while to get going, and you have to read a lot of the interesting bits into the film. Not because the film is subtle, but because it is slow to develop. The last half hour or so is great, and the ending is the sort of thing I wanted more of the rest of the film to be like.

I don’t know Stephane Audran very well yet — my guess is that she may not have the most impressive range in the world, but she is exceptionally good at the casually cruel, coldly seductive bitch type! Maybe she just has the face for it. Anyway she’s a delight in Chabrol films.