Pleasure

Le plaisir, feature film, comedy, romantic drama, France, 1952

DIRECTED BY: Max Ophüls

Pleasure

CAST:
Claude Dauphin (doktor),
Gaby Morlay (Denise),
Jean Galland (Ambroise),
Madeleine Renaud (Julia Tellier),
Ginette Leclerc (gđa. Flora),
Daniel Gélin (Jean),
Jean Servais (Jeanov prijatelj)

SCRIPT:
Jacques Natanson,
Max Ophüls (based on stories by Guy de Maupassant)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Philippe Agostini,
Christian Matras

MUSIC:
Joe Hajos

EDITING:
Léonide Azar

Synopsis:
In the first story of this classic French film about youth, an old man brings back his youth by wearing a mask; in the second story the owner of a brothel in Paris discovers love on a visit to the country with the prostitutes; in the last story – about death – an artist falls in love with his model.

b/w, 97'

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