Trop jolies pour être honnêtes (French pronunciation: [tʁo jɔli puʁ ɛtʁ ɔnɛt], Too Pretty to Be Honest), or 4 Souris pour un hold-up (IPA: [katʁ suʁi puʁ œ̃n‿oldœp], Four Mice for a Holdup, subtitled by the English VHS as "Four Chicks for a Holdup") is a 1972 French film directed by Richard Balducci.[1][2] In 1985 International Home Video Corp. of Wilmington, Los Angeles, California released an English subtitled version of the film,[3] under the series La Vidéo Française.
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French | Trop jolies pour être honnêtes |
Directed by | Richard Balducci |
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Cinematography | Tadasu Suzuki |
Edited by | Michel Lewis |
Music by | Serge Gainsbourg |
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In the film four female roommates who live in the French Riviera, Bernadette (Bernadette Lafont), Christine (Jane Birkin), Frédérique (Elisabeth Wiener), and Martine (Emma Cohen), discover that a group of thieves who committed a robbery are keeping their stolen goods in the building across from them. The women decide to steal the goods from the men.
Cast
edit- Jane Birkin
- Emma Cohen
- Serge Gainsbourg
- Carlo Guiffre
- Bernadette Lafont
- Elisabeth Wiener
References
edit- ^ Sandra Brennan (2016). "Trop jolies pour etre honnetes (1972)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
- ^ "Trop jolies pour etre honnetes (1972)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
- ^ Birkin, Jane; Lafont, Bernadette; Gainsbourg, Serge; Balducci, Richard; Belmondo, Alain (1985). Trop jolies pour être honnete, ou, 4 souris pour un hold-up. Wilmington, Calf.: International Home Video Corp. OCLC 19465010.
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