Le Plaisir

Pleasure ( original title: Le Plaisir ) is a French, black and white film anthology ( episodic film, particularly in English, depending on the context, " vignettes " or " portmanteau " ) after three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, at the Max Ophüls led 1952 Director. Pleasure as one of the lesser known works of Ophuls ' boasts magnificent facilities, but above all by a highly mobile, skillful camera work, as is typical for him.

Action

After long, however fast-paced minutes of black canvas with matching explanations of the writer opened about 1890:

"The Mask "

In Cabaret Glysse -Montmartre breaks into a turbulent, wild ball a bit strange looking three Monsieur on the dance floor in the midst of young ladies swoon. A doctor is under a mask an old man near the heart attack. He bases it on the way home in the slums, and whose wife shall present to the doctor about their concerns is his preference for lavish parties and his obsession with youth, during this completely exhausted is just a few meters away in bed and the ceiling anschnauft.

" The house Tellier "

Madame Tellier, owner and operator of a popular brothel is invited with her very pretty girl constricted to the First Communion of a niece in the country. Consequently, the doors of the restaurant are closed on this day of company outing. A group of decent, honorable men of the city (or even several ) must come to terms with the unfamiliar situation, and the convoy uses the time for a walk in the misty harbor to get there eventually settle on a bench and to the play of watching waves. Soon quarrel breaks out between the men to vanities that are hardly worth mentioning. For the exuberant staff establishment, the train ride and the subsequent stay worth while. The village or at least the bachelors are understandably nearly head.

"The Model "

The young painter Jean lacks the inspiration for quite some time - and money. As he learns to know and love the beautiful Josephine, push his images back to cakes. The ravings go over soon, and the reality catches up with the couple. His muse is proving to be Xanthippe, domestic violence dominated from then on, the studio and the room. After a ( final ) separation Josephine remains no other way out than to rush out the window. You survived the suicide attempt. Years later we see in the cloud-covered beach Jean and Josephine paralyzed in a wheelchair, now a couple, and the two all but happy.

Reviews

  • " Filmed with delicacy and precision. An entertaining study of the concept of, Pläsiers ' at the French poet, translated into a finely contoured language of gestures, the movements, the indications and the exact dialogues; played fabulous, perfectly staged. " ( Encyclopedia of the international film, 2002)
  • " [ ... ] The film [ is ] only for mentally and temperamentally well-established adults a harmless pleasure ', then wrote the musty Bound Evangelical movie watcher. " ( Jens Golombek: The great film lexicon: all the top movies from A - Z, 1995)
  • " Sounds better than it is; the stories allow Ophüls to present his virtuosity, but two of the three turn out to be too thin and trite. " ( Pauline Kael )
  • "Pretty brutal [ ... ] The property always goes to the disgust of habituation after ' - could have told Peter Coyote in Polanski's Bitter Moon is here but Jean Servais. " ( Fernando F. Croce: Slant )
  • " Ophuls has created four films in the early 1950s, and all four - La Ronde ',' Le Plaisir ' (1952 ), Madame de ... ,' and ' Lola Montes (1955 ) - achievements of genius have become. " (Anthony Lane: Master of Ceremonies - The films of Max Ophuls in The New Yorker)

Awards

  • Nomination in the category Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Black-and -White for Max Ophüls

Background

The world premiere took place on 14 February 1952. Day of the first performance in the Federal Republic of Germany was 4 November 1952. In English, Sir Peter Ustinov was the narrator in the original Jean Servais. The middle episode covers about 70 of the 100 minutes.

At the first appearance in the United States episode were two and three reversed in favor of a more conventional structure.

In particular, the opening sequence of "The Mask " has been found in the art for the technical implementation of far-reaching recognition.

France 1952 in film Screenplay Jacques Natanson Film score Maurice Yvain Jacques Offenbach Christian Matras (cinematographer) Philippe Agostini Claude Dauphin (actor) Anthology film Unchained camera technique Corset 27th Academy Awards WebCite Dave Kehr Bosley Crowther
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