Le Plaisir
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Time Out says
Ophüls' second French film following his return from the USA was adapted from three stories by Maupassant. Le Masque describes how an old man wears a mask of youth at a dance hall to extend his youthful memories. La Maison Tellier, the longest episode, deals with a day's outing for the ladies from a brothel, and a brief romance. In Le Modéle, the model in question jumps from a window for love of an artist, who then marries her. Although Ophüls had to drop a fourth story intended to contrast pleasure and death, these three on old age, purity and marriage are shot with a supreme elegance and sympathy, and the central tale in particular luxuriates in the Normandy countryside. The whole is summed up by the concluding line, that 'happiness is no lark'.Author: DT
Release details
UK release:
1951
Duration:
95 mins
Cast and crew
Cinematography:
Philippe Agostini, Christian Matras
Cast:
Gaby Morlay, Pierre Brasseur, Jean Gabin, Claude Dauphin, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Madeleine Renaud, Danielle Darrieux, Ginette Leclerc
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