Les bonnes femmes / The Good Time Girls (1960)
The Good Time Girls / Les bonnes femmes (1960)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 5300 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: #1 French AC3 2.0 @ 256 | Subtitles: English
01:40:00 | France, Italy | Drama, Mystery, Romance
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 16:9 | 720x576 | 5300 kbps | 4.6Gb
Audio: #1 French AC3 2.0 @ 256 | Subtitles: English
01:40:00 | France, Italy | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stephane Audran, Lucile Saint-Simon, Pierre Bertin, Jean-Louis Maury, Albert Dinan, Ave Ninchi, Sacha Briquet, Claude Berri, Jean Barclay, Rossana Rossanigo, Dolly Bell, Gabriel Gobin, France Asselin, Jean-Marie Arnoux, Robert Barre, Trio Rody Renatal, Dominique Zardi, Philippe Castelli, Mario David, Henri Attal, Charles Bayard, Charles Belmont, Serge Bento, Karen Blanguernon, Claude Chabrol, Jenny Doria, Liliane David, Simone Landry
Les bonnes femmes / The Good Time Girls (1960)
Les bonnes femmes / The Good Time Girls (1960)
Just to prove that portraying males as all-negative is nothing new, see Les Bonnes Femmes: the employer with wandering hands, the drippy suitor, his bossy Dad, the snobbish fiancé, the lurking psycho, the bad-jokes bully-boy and his fatty hanger-on, the absent lad on national service. Every one of them is no good. And yet the four shop-assistants are no better, they exist only for the men. Whatever the fellows throw at them, they're up for it. It's a chilling worldview, with a cynical twist at the end, (plus a tacked-on coda that seems to be from another movie). Along the way, there's some really hammy acting from the girls' employer that clashes badly with the realistic mood, and some longueurs as the girls get bored at work and we get bored right along with them. The young Bernadette Lafont is a joy, but she fades out in Reel Three when the lovely Clotilde Joano comes to the fore. Whatever happened to Clotilde? Her subsequent career was undistinguished, and she died at age 42. This is mostly a watchable slice of Paris life from the late 50s, although the Algerians who caused so much mayhem only a few years later are nowhere to be seen.
~ rowmorg
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Les bonnes femmes / The Good Time Girls (1960)
Les bonnes femmes / The Good Time Girls (1960)
