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Le Plaisir [1952]
from Second Sight Films Ltd.
starring Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon, Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay
directed by Max Ophüls

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Max Ophuls' marvelous film of pleasure and, perhaps, love
  The screen is pitch black and we hear a voice..."I'm so happy to be talking in the dark as if I were beside you, and maybe I am." The speaker is Guy de Maupassant (voiced by Jean Marais), and Le Plaisir is three of his stories filmed by the great director Max Ophuls. The connecting thread? That pleasure, or even love, lies in how people intermingle their lives, with a shrug, assumptions, an apology, a thank you. Le Plaisir is not so much a sophisticated film of attraction and hope as it is a film of rueful... more info

• Maupassant and Ophuls in perfect harmony
  Delightful cinematic treatment of three short stories by Maupassant by one of the true masters of cinema. The Mask and The Model are both nicely done but it is Madame Tellier's Establishment which takes up 2/3rd's of the running time that is the real treat here.Possibly Maupassant's most wonderful short story, the madam of a town brothel closes it for one night taking all her girls with her into the countryside to attend her niece's confirmation.How this affects the brothel's clientele,the women themselves... more info

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