Movie
Les Biches
Overview
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
Details
- Release date
- 1968-03-22
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Alexandra Films
- Country
- France, Italy
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Stéphane Audran as Frédérique
- Jacqueline Sassard as Why
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Paul Thomas
- Nane Germon as Violetta
- Serge Bento as Bookseller
- Henri Attal as Robègue
- Dominique Zardi as Riais
- Henri Frances
- Laure Valmée
- Claude Chabrol as Filmmaker (uncredited)
Crew
- Claude Chabrol - Director
- Paul Gégauff - Screenplay
- Claude Chabrol - Screenplay
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