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House of Pleasure

Play trailer House of Pleasure 1954,  1h 40m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 80% 10 Reviews Tomatometer 86% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
80% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 86% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
A doctor (Jean Gabin), an artist (Daniel Gélin) and a madam (Madeleine Renaud) appear in vignettes from stories by Guy de Maupassant.

Critics Reviews

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Aug 3, 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 Nov 3, 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 Apr 8, 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 Jul 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 Feb 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 Apr 11, 2008
B+
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Audience Reviews

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Hermione P Jul 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
Rey S Oct 16, 2012 Apart from that natural drawback of most anthologies - being a rather uneven piece made of contrasting stories -, this film is a charming and refreshing experience that benefits mainly from its sumptuous visuals and splendid use of tracking shots and long takes. See more
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Cast & Crew

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Max Ophuls

Director

Jean Gabin

Joseph Rivet (segment "La Maison Tellier")

Daniel Gélin

Jean, the painter (segment "Le Modèle")

Madeleine Renaud

Mme Tellier (segment "La Maison Tellier")

Claude Dauphin

The Doctor (segment "Le Masque")

Simone Simon

Joséphine (segment "Le Modèle")

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House of Pleasure

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Movie Info

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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