Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Directed byRobert Bresson
Written byRobert Bresson
Jean Cocteau (dialogue)
Produced byRaoul Ploquin
StarringPaul Bernard
María Casares
Élina Labourdette
Lucienne Bogaert
CinematographyPhilippe Agostini
Edited byJean Feyte
Music byJean-Jacques Grünenwald
Release dates
  • 21 September 1945 (1945-09-21) (France)
  • 3 April 1964 (1964-04-03) (U.S.)
  • June 1964 (1964-06) (UK)
Running time
84 min
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (French for "The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne") is a 1945 French film directed by Robert Bresson.[1] It is a modern adaptation of the story of Madame de La Pommeraye from Denis Diderot's Jacques le fataliste (1796) that tells the tale of a man who is tricked into marrying a prostitute.

Les Dames was Bresson's second feature. It is also his last film to feature a cast entirely composed of professional actors.[2]

  1. ^ "The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne". unifrance.org. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  2. ^ Roy Armes, French Cinema, New York: Secker & Warburg (1985): 116. "In the 1950s Bresson was to renounce the use of professional actors, but here he obtains excellent performances from his principal actresses."