The Good Girls (1960) Les Bonnes Femmes | Region-Free (Blu-Ray) | Directed by Claude Chabrol

Cinema Dream Network Custom Region-Free Blu-ray/BD-R

Presented in 1080p with English subtitles.

Title: The Good Girls (1960)

Alternate Title: Les bonnes femmes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Plot Synopsis:
The film follows four young Parisian women—Jane, Ginette, Jacqueline, and Rita—who work together in an appliance store. Each seeks to escape the monotony of their daily lives through romantic adventures, hoping to find love and fulfillment. Their individual pursuits lead them through a series of encounters that reveal the complexities and challenges of their desires, culminating in unexpected and poignant outcomes.

Cast and Crew:

• Director: Claude Chabrol
• Writers:
  • Claude Chabrol
  • Paul Gégauff
• Cast:
  • Bernadette Lafont as Jane
  • Clotilde Joano as Jacqueline
  • Stéphane Audran as Ginette
  • Lucile Saint-Simon as Rita
  • Claude Berri as Marcel\

YouTube Trailer:
The Good Girls | Trailer

IMDb Link:
The Good Girls (1960)

Reviews from Letterboxd:

1. Filipe Furtado – ★★★★☆
   “In a world dominated by pricks, one is always moving a step closer to the gutter. Uncompromised narrow and determinist allowing no escape for its bleak gaze. It is Chabrol’s most impressive balance between an objective thriller mechanics, a Langian world always set to disappear into itself, and a subjective curiosity about people and their mores, an opening and acceptance towards the same people the film is condemning.”
2. M.D. Perkins – ★★★★☆
   “The death of romanticism is given beauty, depth and pathos thanks to Chabrol’s delicate portrait of two Parisian women whose romantic notions, both strikingly different, seem to be fulfilled and then quickly upended. Because of some comic touches and breezy documentary-like passages, the film avoids being a deadweight of thematic imperatives, and instead is an amusing tragedy that pits society against the individual.”
3. Eternality Tan – ★★★★☆
   “Les bonnes femmes has been for the longest time difficult to access, so thanks to MUBI, I was able to see it. A commercial failure back in the day, Claude Chabrol’s early outing has also been long due a reappraisal. Now considered one of the best films of his early phase, and a key work of the French New Wave, Les bonnes femmes is also rather controversial, at least in comparison to the works of his peers.”

Meta Description:
“The Good Girls” (1960), directed by Claude Chabrol, is a French drama that explores the lives of four Parisian women seeking love and escape from their mundane routines, highlighting the complexities of their desires and societal expectations.