Le plaisir [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Gaumont ; Columbia Films S.A. présente une production C.C.F.C., E. Harispuru, producteur délégué, et Stera Films ; un film de Max Ophüls ; adaptation de Jacques Natanson et Max Ophüls ; dialogues de Jacques Natanson ; directeurs de la photographie, Christian Matras et Philippe Agostini.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed., fullscreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Mila Parély, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Brasseur, Jean Gabin, Jean Servais, Daniel Gélin, Simone Simon, Amédée, Paul Azaïs, Balpétré, René Blancard, Gaby Bruyère, Mathilde Casadesus, Henri Crémieux, Arthur Devére, Paulette Dubost, Jean Galland, Jocelyn Jany, Robert Lombard, Héléna Manson, Marcel Perés, Jean Meyer, Louis Seigner, Michéle Vadet, Jeanine Vienot, Charles Vissiéres, Janine Yselle ; voix de Guy de Maupassant, Jean Servais. Based on three stories by Guy de Maupassant. Originally released as a motion picture in 1952 in France. Bonus features: Introduction by filmmaker Todd Haynes (Far from heaven); English and German language versions of the opening narration; "From script to screen" a video essay featuring film scholar Jean-Piere Berthomé discussing the evolution of the director Max Ophuls's screenplay for Le plaisir; Interviews with actor Daniel Gélin, assistant director Tony Aboyantz, and set decorator Robert Christidès ; Essay by film critic Robin Wood (booklet).
Contents:
1. A voice in the dark -- 2. The mask: at the ball -- 3. Identity revealed -- 4. Back home -- 5. The Tellier house: the women of the house -- 6. Disgruntled clients -- 7. Boredom breeds arguments -- 8. The journey begins -- 9. Something for nothing -- 10. The countryside with Joseph -- 11. Constance -- 12. Silent night -- 13. First communion -- 14. Joseph gets in trouble -- 15. The 3:55 -- 16. A celebratory return -- 17. The model: Jean and Joséphine -- 18. The fighting begins -- 19. Leaving -- 20. A desperate act -- 21. Color bars.
Summary:
An aging man hides behind a mask to meet ladies, a madame takes her girls to a communion, and a painter falls for his model in these stories of life, love, pleasure, and death.
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