Pleasure (Le Plaisir)

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Directed by

Max Ophüls

Starring (View all)

Claude Dauphin
Le docteur

Gaby Morlay
Denise - la femme dAmbroise

Madeleine Renaud
Julia Tellier

Ginette Leclerc
Madame Flora dite Balançoire

Mila Parély
Madame Raphaële

Danielle Darrieux
Madame Rosa

Pierre Brasseur
Julien Ledentu - Le commis-voyageur

Jean Gabin
Joseph Rivet

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Guy de Maupassant
(stories)

Jacques Natanson
(adaptation) and

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Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women – pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece’s communion – pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model – pleasure and death.

Release date: 19 May 1954

Tags: France (3), French (2), 1952 (2), FE (1), Drama (1), Not Foreign Language (1), Pleasure (1), 50's (1), Bordello (1), Muse (1), HQ (1), Artist (1), Prostitute (1), 1950s (1), Marriage (1), Bw (1), Foreign Language (1), Comedy (1)

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"8.3. 2024 Max Ophüls turned three Maupassant's short stories into a wonderfully captivating, visually rich triptych, a total work of art. All of them show the feeling of joy in its many different forms: the first one tells about an old man who can only enjoy life when he is wearing a mask that hides his wrinkled face. In the second story some rich men of the town are worried because the brothel of the town has been closed. It has been closed because Madame and her workers have travelled to the"