The Does (Les Biches)

<b>The screening on Friday 11th September, 6:10pm will have an introduction from Dr Pasquale Iannone, Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He also produces and hosts Edinburgh Film Podcast.</b><div><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Book tickets for two or more of our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/claude-chabrol">Claude Chabrol</a>&nbsp;films in the same transaction to receive a discount!</b><b><br></b><div><br></div><div>This polarising work, both lauded and loathed by queer audiences, mines the seduction of privilege – a gender-swapped riff on Patricia Highsmith’s <i>The Talented Mr. Ripley</i>. Two women - one wealthy and idle, the other sharp and hungry - fall into a tangled relationship over a winter in Saint-Tropez. The film marked Chabrol’s creative and personal partnership with Stéphane Audran, and announced a new, more baroque register in his work.<div><br></div><div><i>Les Biches</i>, starring Jacqueline Sassard and Jean-Louis Trintignant (<i>Three Colours: Red</i>, <i>Amour</i>, <i>Happy End</i>) alongside Audran, screened at the 22nd Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1968, and again at the 24th as part of a Claude Chabrol retrospective. A calm, exquisite study, set in an autumnal Riviera, of the permutational affairs of one man and two women, which lead to obsession, madness and despair.&nbsp;</div></div></div>DramaPT1H39M152026-09-11FRfr
Stéphane Audran
Jacqueline Sassard
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Claude Chabrol
André Génovès
The Does (Les Biches)"The Does (Les Biches)"

Showtimes

September 11, 6:10 pm

September 12, 3:50 pm

Filmhouse Cinema