Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 323: Tue Nov 26

Les Bonnes Femmes (Chabrol, 1960): Cine Lumiere, 5.30pm


This haunting Claude Chabrol picture screens in the Claude Chabrol season at the Cine Lumiere. The film also screens on November 24th and December 13th. You can find the full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
Arguably the best as well as the most disturbing movie Claude Chabrol has made to date, this unjustly neglected 1960 feature, his fourth, focuses on the everyday lives and ultimate fates of four young women (Bernadette Lafont, Stephane Audran, Clotilde Joano, and Lucile Saint-Simon) working at an appliance store in Paris and longing for better things. Ruthlessly unsentimental yet powerfully compassionate, it shows Chabrol at his most formally inventive, and it exerted a pronounced influence on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz two decades later.
Jonathan Rosenbaum

Here (and above) are the opening titles.

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