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Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
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The four young women work at the same place and each has to put up with a lecherous supervisor who talks out of one side of his mouth about good morals while the other side has the opposite message. One of the women, Jane (Bernadette Lafont) fixes herself up in a somewhat vulgar manner and goes out to pick up men, which fails to produce any real love. Another wants to marry a man whose family runs a respectable store. Another sings -- incognito -- with a pop band, while the last, Jacqueline (Clothilde Joano) is pursued by a biker. The film details their doomed attempts to find romance. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Starring:
Bernadette LafontClotilde Joano, (more)
Director(s):
Claude Chabrol
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    Paul K.

    Slow going, slow going, but captures the feeling of what living in Paris way back when must have been like. The film reminded me of Robert Altman, where nothing much seems to happen for most of the movie, and everything appears disconnected. But, in the end, here, as with Altman, everything makes sense, and all things comes together, allowing the impact to be delivered with great power. A viewer just has to have the patience to wait for the resolution.

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    John S.

    One of Chabrol's early greats. If you want to see (or relive) the Paris of the 1950s, this is your film. A standout cast, including Chabrol's first wife, the young Stephane Audran, and Bernadette Lafont, superb comedienne as always. The story hinges on the boredom and the dreams of young women trying to compensate for their dreary daytime jobs by a night on the town in gay Paree. The search for "true love" by the dreamiest of the damsels leads to disaster-- and you can't say Chabrol didn't warn us.

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