Les bonnes femmes
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Claude Chabrol
Bernadette Lafont
Lucile Saint-simon
Clotilde Joano
Stéphane Audran
Mario David
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Jane, Ginette, Rita, and Jacqueline are young Parisians working in an electric appliance store. Bored with their humdrum working day, they seek glamour, happiness, and love during their free evenings. Jane is engaged to a soldier but, because of his absence and her hunger for excitement, she allows herself to be picked up by strangers who promise a night of carousing. Ginette, oldest and most secretive of the group, finds her escape by donning a black wig and singing Italian songs in a second-rate theatre. Her pleasure abruptly ends when the other girls discover her carefully guarded secret. Rita believes herself in love with the son of a shopkeeping family until she meets his penny-pinching parents and realizes that marriage to him would be merely changing her environment. Jacqueline, youngest and most innocent of the quartet, demurely permits herself to be followed everywhere by a young man on a motorcycle. One Sunday afternoon, he approaches her and takes her to the country. They have lunch at an old inn, and then he takes her for a walk in the nearby woods and brutally murders her.
Director
Claude Chabrol
Cast
Bernadette Lafont
Lucile Saint-simon
Clotilde Joano
Stéphane Audran
Mario David
Ave Ninchi
Jean-louis Maury
Albert Dinan
Sacha Briquet
Claude Berri
Pierre Bertan
Serge Bento
Karen Blanguernon
Claude Chabrol
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Opened in Paris in April 1960; running time: 104 min. Released in Italy in 1964 as Le donne facili.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1999
Released in United States January 2000
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2000
Re-released in United States February 11, 2000
Released in United States 1999 (Shown in New York City (Walter Reade Theater) as part of program "Just Before Midnight: The Cinema of Claude Chabrol" July 23 - August 19, 1999.)
Released in United States January 2000 (Shown in New York City (Anthology Film Archives) as part of program "Kino International Retrospective" January 6-27, 2000.)
Re-released in United States February 11, 2000 (Nuart Theatre; Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2000
