Unnerving French film by superb director Claude Chabrol deceivingly begins as a good time tale about four fun lasses then turns into a nightmare filmed with a darkly poetic style that haunts.
A lost '60's New Wave classic, the film obviously had a strong impact on future filmmakers since you can spot components in works by DePalma and John Carpenter -especially in his Halloween. Les Bonnes Femmes also makes the kind of impact that the clunky Looking for Mr. Goodbar doesn't: the 1977 tale about singles bars featured an in-your-face woman who pursued non-stop sex with disastrous results while Les Bonnes Femmes shows naive characters who are merely looking for emotional love only to be tragically disappointed. There's a world of difference between a pop culture message film and an observational foreign character study.
A lost '60's New Wave classic, the film obviously had a strong impact on future filmmakers since you can spot components in works by DePalma and John Carpenter -especially in his Halloween. Les Bonnes Femmes also makes the kind of impact that the clunky Looking for Mr. Goodbar doesn't: the 1977 tale about singles bars featured an in-your-face woman who pursued non-stop sex with disastrous results while Les Bonnes Femmes shows naive characters who are merely looking for emotional love only to be tragically disappointed. There's a world of difference between a pop culture message film and an observational foreign character study.