A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
What is extraordinary is the portrayal of a kind of deviate Dolce Vita, in which the waif comes to regard her former lovers, male and female, as parental figures, to whom she becomes quite filially attached.
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Roger Ebert
RTChicago Sun-TimesOct 23, 2004
Claude Chabrol's Les Biches depends almost entirely on style, and as style it succeeds. He is not so much interested in his story as in how to tell it.
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Justine Smith
RTVague VisagesNov 21, 2023
The symbolic resonance of the film’s title and the dreaminess of its structure is appealing. The performances are rich, however self-effacing they may be, and the chemistry amongst the leads is undeniable...
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Paul Schrader
RTLos Angeles Free PressJul 1, 2020
It passes over us with the full weight of its two hours. Les Biches is a sleeper, that is, it's soporific.
