Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
Acting
Deneuve and Lafont's crackling, lived-in chemistry.
Costume
Sequins, fur, and desperation — 1975 Pigalle realness.
Director
László Szabó
Catherine Deneuve
Marie
Bernadette Lafont
Pauline
Walter Chiari
Walter, le clochard
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Le guitariste
Yves Afonso
Aldo Minelli, le patron du bar
Georgette Anys
La cantatrice
Tino Carraro
Le ministre
Paola Senatore
Madame Bruyère
Hubert Deschamps
Jean Mortagne
Georges Adet
Son excellence (au bordel)
Joël Barbouth
Michel Berto
Un agent de police
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was László Szabó's sole directorial feature; he's better known as an actor in Godard's early films.
Shot in actual Pigalle locations just before the neighborhood's Disneyfication — a vanished Paris preserved in grainy 35mm.
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