
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Les biches literally means the does but it s also the French equivalent of chicks or birds as well as a blatant pun on the sexual orientation initially displayed by wealthy bourgeoise Frederique (Stephane Audran) when she plucks Parisian pavement artist Why (Jacqueline Sassard) literally off the street seduces her & whisks her away to off-season Saint-Tropez for a life of idle decadence in the company of her raffish gay friends There they meet architect Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant) whose initial interest in Why is cruelly exploited by a jealous Frederique for her own selfish ends But Why is no longer the virginal innocent that she was at the start & it s at this point that Claude Chabrol s film stops being an elegant comedy of manners (with a then-groundbreakingly casual attitude towards homosexuality) & starts turning the psychological screws with the millimetre precision characteristic of the man often dubbed the French Hitchcock