Les Bonnes Femmes
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Les Bonnes Femmes is a French crime drama directed by Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...

. It was one of the earliest and most revered films of the French New Wave
French New Wave
The New Wave was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced by Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema. Although never a formally organized movement, the New Wave filmmakers were linked by their self-conscious rejection of...

, although it was a financial flop on its initial release.

The film tells the story of four single Parisian women and their domestic and romantic encounters. It has a mix of melodrama, absurd comedy and tragedy that was common among the early, experimental New wave films.

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