Le Plaisir

(Criterion Collection)

Starring: Claude Dauphin Director: Max Ophuls

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DVD Features:

Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame 1.33

Audio:

Dolby Digital - English

Entertainment Reviews:

Sight and Sound - 12/01/2006

"[This] film addresses fundamental questions about the author's responsibility to her/his creations..."

Product Description:

LE PLAISIR (The House of Pleasure) is taken from three stories by French writer Guy de Maupassant. LE MASQUE opens at a Paris dance hall where a strange man (Jean Galland) dances with such abandon that he collapses. A doctor (Claude Dauphin) is summoned to revive him, only to discover a withered old man under a mask. When the doctor takes the man home, the man's wife tells the doctor the strange story of her husband's life.

LE MODELE opens with a middle-aged man pushing a woman in a wheel chair. A narrator explains that he is a famous artist. In a flashback to Paris in the 1890s, Jean (Daniel Gelin), falls in love with Josephine (Simone Simon), his beautiful model. He paints only portraits of her and achieves success, but their love affair ends tragically.

MAISON TELLIER is a charming tale of the bordello in a small French town. When Madame Tellier (Madeleine Renaud) takes all the prostitutes off to her brother Joseph's (Jean Gabin) farm for the weekend, the men begin fighting. The women are dazzled by the beauty of the county but they can't sleep because of the quiet. When they return home, the men of the town all turn out for a gala night.

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Cast and Crew:

Starring		Claude Dauphin
Directed by		Max Ophuls
Edited by		Leonide Azar
Featured		Gaby Morlay & Jean Servals
Screenwriting by		Max Ophuls
Composition by		Karl Hajos
Director of Photography		Philippe Agostini & Christian Matras
Performer		Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Peter Ustinov, Simone Simon & Daniel Gelin

DVD Details:

Label: Criterion
Originally Released in: 1952
Number of Discs: 1
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
Video: Black & White
Release Date: September 16, 2008
OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 90,187
Item UPC: 715515031523
Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 1 item(s) for International Shipping.

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