Synopsis
Les Biches (1968) is a Claude Chabrol drama you can watch online on iFILM. On a Paris bridge, the bored and wealthy Frédérique picks up a penniless young street artist nicknamed Why and carries her off to her villa in Saint-Tropez.
The two women's quiet idyll doesn't last. A charming local architect, Paul, drifts into their orbit, and a romance flares first between him and Why, then — to her fury — between him and Frédérique. What begins as a holiday fling tightens into a cold triangle of jealousy, swapped identities and slow cruelty. Stéphane Audran, as Frédérique, won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin; Jacqueline Sassard and Jean-Louis Trintignant round out the trio.
Chabrol films not the passion but its chilling mechanics: gorgeous interiors, exact compositions, and a creeping sense that one of these three is expendable. A precise, unsettling piece for anyone drawn to the French New Wave and psychological suspense that never raises its voice. Stream Les Biches (1968) online on iFILM.
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