Les Bonnes Femmes (1960, Kino) Full of the off - handed energy and bustling, seemingly
spontaneous bits of life that invigorates the French New Wave, this under - appreciated drama by Claude Chabrol looks on the surface like a sweet character study of four Paris shopgirls who dream of better things.
But to nourish his sense
of spontaneous creative inspiration, he turned to his garden and the
living plant beauties found there, harvesting various
bits here and there and arranging them in careful compositions that you see here.