Les Parisiennes (1962) - film review
Marc Allégret, Claude Barma, Michel Boisrond, Jacques Poitrenaud
Comedy

Summary
Four stories about Parisian women in the sixties.
1) Ella, a dancer from Pigalle, has a meeting with an American producer. Worried that she may arrive too late, she shares a taxi with a stranger, not knowing that he is the man she is going to see...
2) Françoise returns from the United States and decides to take revenge on her best friend by seducing her fiancé...
3) Antonia is a married woman who has been abandoned by her lover. She intends to convince him that she still has the power to seduce...
4) Sophie, a young student who has no boyfriend, pretends to be the mistress of her mother’s lover. In fact, she is in love with a guitar player...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
1) Ella, a dancer from Pigalle, has a meeting with an American producer. Worried that she may arrive too late, she shares a taxi with a stranger, not knowing that he is the man she is going to see...
2) Françoise returns from the United States and decides to take revenge on her best friend by seducing her fiancé...
3) Antonia is a married woman who has been abandoned by her lover. She intends to convince him that she still has the power to seduce...
4) Sophie, a young student who has no boyfriend, pretends to be the mistress of her mother’s lover. In fact, she is in love with a guitar player...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Marc Allégret, Claude Barma, Michel Boisrond, Jacques Poitrenaud
- Script: Marc Allégret, Jacques Armand, Claude Barma, Michel Boisrond, Claude Brulé, Francis Cosne, Jean-Loup Dabadie, Roger Vadim, Annette Wademant
- Photo: Henri Alekan, Armand Thirard
- Music: Charles Aznavour, Georges Garvarentz
- Cast: Françoise Arnoul (Françoise (segment "Françoise")), Françoise Brion (Jacqueline), Darry Cowl (Hubert Parker), Catherine Deneuve (Sophie), Paul Guers (Michel), Johnny Hallyday (Jean), Elina Labourdette (Jacqueline), Christian Marquand (Christian), Jean Poiret (Jean), Dany Robin (Antonia), Dany Saval (Ella), Jack Ary (Pidoux), Mick Besson (Joueur de golf), Les Chaussettes Noires (Themselves), Françoise Giret (Julietta), Berthe Granval (Suzanne), Gillian Hills (Theodora), Bernard Lavalette (Richard), Eddy Mitchell (Himself), Gisèle Sandré (Suzanne)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 105 min
- Aka: Beds and Broads; Tales of Paris
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