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House of Pleasure

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A doctor (Jean Gabin), an artist (Daniel Gélin) and a madam (Madeleine Renaud) appear in vignettes from stories by Guy de Maupassant.
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Richard Brody The New Yorker 08/03/2015
The director, Max Ophüls, reshapes the material with his distinctive blend of visual genius and bitter, worldly wisdom. Go to Full Review
Fernando F. Croce Slant Magazine 11/03/2005
4/4
Le Plaisir illustrates not merely Ophüls's unparalleled sense of flow and texture, but also his proto-feminism. Go to Full Review
Victor Pineyro Seventh Art Studio 04/08/2022
4/10
The film has a spectacular starting monologue and a few recognizable and revolutionary camera movements, but beyond that it struggles to pull through a recognizable narrative surrounding pleasure, without narrating it all. Full review in Spanish Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 07/24/2012
1.5/4
...a visually sumptuous yet tedious and hopelessly irrelevant piece of work. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 02/14/2012
B
This omnibus of three stories are all conventional ones told in a genteel conventional way, but the camerawork is sensational. Go to Full Review
Daniel Kasman d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews 04/11/2008
B+
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07/21/2017 It never struggles in its transitions through each separate story, it actually gets better as it goes and the last one of the three being the most fitting for the end. See more 08/15/2015 Most of the film is taken up by the second of its three stories, a far more complicated and detailed story than the other two, and on its own, it's a masterpiece, one of the best things Ophüls has ever done. See more 07/26/2015 didn't really liker this one the only Max Ophul pic I don't like year s/b 1952 not 1999 See more 06/11/2013 One more time, the camera becomes an intangible character, neutral as Maupassant's enchanting vision of the irrationality of pleasure our multiple emotional deviations, but powerful as well; it is a sublime conqueror of spaces that dances around the cinematic rhythm of the protagonists that share the same impulse: <i>plaisir</i>. Wonderful nocturne and multicolored landscapes illuminate the delicacy of the three tales; at some point, it seemed like Öphuls was screaming for a chance to make a film in color. Thank God, he achieved that with his last feature. 99/100 See more 12/30/2011 syxi-love@hotmail.com See more 11/16/2011 I've seen it and it is so fun! Definitely a film to see alone or with others that appreciate art and sensuality in their films. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A doctor (Jean Gabin), an artist (Daniel Gélin) and a madam (Madeleine Renaud) appear in vignettes from stories by Guy de Maupassant.
Director
Max Ophuls
Producer
Édouard Harispuru, M. Kieffer, Max Ophuls
Screenwriter
Guy de Maupassant, Jacques Natanson, Max Ophuls
Production Co
Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique, Stera Films
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
May 19, 1954, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 28, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m
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