The Does (Les Biches)

88 Lothian Road

Fri 11 Sept · 18:10

Claude Chabrol · 99m · Film

About this event

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. Book tickets for two or more of our Claude Chabrol films in the same transaction to receive a discount! This polarising work, both lauded and loathed by queer audiences, mines the seduction of privilege – a gender-swapped riff on Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley . 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. Les Biches , starring Jacqueline Sassard and Jean-Louis Trintignant ( Three Colours: Red , Amour , Happy End ) 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.