Le plaisir
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Le plaisir
（The Criterion collection, 444）
Criterion Collection, c2008
Special ed., fullscreen
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In French; with English subtitles
Cast: Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud ... [et al.]
Credits: Music, Joe Hayos ; production design, D'Eaubonne ; executive producer, F. Harispuru and Ben Barkay ; costumes, Annenkoff ; editors, Léonide Azar, Suzanne Rondeau
Based on three stories by Guy de Maupassant
Originally released as a motion picture in 1952
Rating: Not rated
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)
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