Les Biches is a 1968 French film starring Stephane Audran

Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran is a French film and television actress, known for her performances in Oscar winning movies such as Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie and Babette's Feast and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One and Violette Nozière .She married...

, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Career:...

, and Jacqueline Sassard

Jacqueline Sassard

Jacqueline Sassard is an actress best known for appearances in Italian films such as Guendalina directed by Alberto Lattuada, a young woman with family and economical troubles in Luigi Zampa's Il Magistrato and Valerio Zurlini's Violent Summer , in which her character was left by Jean Louis...

. It was directed by Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...

, and depicts a tortured lesbian

Lesbian

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 relationship between the Audran and Sassard characters. Audran won the Silver Bear for Best Actress

Silver Bear for Best Actress

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 at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival

18th Berlin International Film Festival

The 18th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 21 to July 2, 1968.-Jury:* Luis García Berlanga * Peter Schamoni* Alex Viany* Georges de Beauregard* Alexander Walker* Domenico Meccoli* Carl-Eric Nordberg...

. The film had a total of 627,164 admissions in France.

Plot

Frédérique is a rich and beautiful woman who picks up a female street artist called "Why". It is December and they go to her villa in Saint Tropez, which is inhabited by a couple of odd gay men. Both women fall for the local architect Paul Thomas. However Why says that she is not interested in him, so Frédérique invites him to move into the villa.

Cast

• Jean-Louis Trintignant
  Jean-Louis Trintignant
  Jean-Louis Trintignant is a French actor who has enjoyed an international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Career:...
  
   - Paul Thomas
• Jacqueline Sassard
  Jacqueline Sassard
  Jacqueline Sassard is an actress best known for appearances in Italian films such as Guendalina directed by Alberto Lattuada, a young woman with family and economical troubles in Luigi Zampa's Il Magistrato and Valerio Zurlini's Violent Summer , in which her character was left by Jean Louis...
  
   - Why
• Stéphane Audran
  Stéphane Audran
  Stéphane Audran is a French film and television actress, known for her performances in Oscar winning movies such as Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie and Babette's Feast and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One and Violette Nozière .She married...
  
   - Frédérique
• Nane Germon - Violetta
• Serge Bento - Bookseller
• Henri Frances
• Henri Attal - Robèque
• Dominique Zardi
  Dominique Zardi
  Dominique Zardi was a French actor. He played in more than 600 films-Selected filmography:- External links :* *...
  
  - Riais

External links

• Les Biches at IMDB