Jane Birkin, Bernadette Lafont, Elisabeth Wiener and Emma Cohen are 4 pretty girls rooming together. After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street! They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot in this lighthearted caper comedy with a bit of nudity! Serge Gainsbourg did the bouncy score.Read More »
Elisabeth Wiener
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Richard Balducci – Trop jolies pour être honnêtes AKA Quatre souris pour un hold-up AKA Seduction Squad (1972)
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Henri-Georges Clouzot – La Prisonnière AKA Woman in Chains (1968)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaFranceHenri-Georges ClouzotSteve Seid writes:
Clouzot’s final foray into features takes us into another tortured love triangle to explore voyeurism and, by extension, the very gaze that so draws us to cinema. Josée (Elisabeth Wiener) meets her artist-lover’s gallerist, the chic but kinky Stanislas Hessler (Laurent Terzieff), whose hobby is photographing female nudes in S&M postures. Naturally, Josée succumbs to the temptation to pose, but finds she needs bonding not bondage. Enter the obsessive kinetic artist Gilbert (Bernard Fresson), and the triangulated trap is sprung. Like Peeping Tom, Woman in Chains uses the camera’s gaze as a substitute for our own voyeuristic impulse.Read More » -
Pierre Prévert – Le petit Claus et le grand Claus AKA Little Claus and Big Claus (1964)
Arthouse1961-1970FantasyFrancePierre PrévertSynopsis
Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only one horse, so, by way of distinguishing them from each other, the proprietor of four horses was called “Great Claus,” and he who owned but one horse was known as “Little Claus”…Read More »