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Une partie de plaisir
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Written by	Paul Gégauff
Produced by	André Génovès
Starring	Danièle Gégauff Paul Gégauff Clemence Gégauff
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Edited by	Jacques Gaillard
Music by	Pierre Jansen
Production companies	Gerico Sound Les Films de la Boétie Sunchild Productions
Distributed by	Les Films de la Boétie
Release dates	January 15, 1975 (1975-01-15) (France) May 20, 1976 (1976-05-20) (United States)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Pleasure Party (French: Une partie de plaisir; released in North America as A Piece of Pleasure) is a 1975 French film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring its screenwriter and longtime Chabrol collaborator Paul Gégauff. In the film, Gégauff plays a writer with a troubled marriage that ends in tragedy. His wife is played by his real-life first wife Danièle Gégauff (already divorced when this film was made) and his daughter is played by real-life daughter Clemence Gégauff.^[1]

Plot

Philippe and Esther are happily married and living a middle class life with their young daughter. In order to add excitement and sophistication to the marriage, Philippe suggests they begin sleeping with other people then describing it to each other. But Philippe becomes filled with jealousy and anger towards his wife until tragedy destroys the entire family.

Cast

Danièle Gégauff as Esther
Paul Gégauff as Philippe
Clemence Gégauff as Elise
Paula Moore as Sylvia Murdoch
Cécile Vassort as Annie
Giancarlo Sisti as Habib
Mario Santini as Rosco
Michel Valette as Katkof
Pierre Santini as Michel

Reception

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four.^[2] He wrote, "A Piece Of Pleasure doesn't provide the pleasures of so many Chabrol films, maybe because in getting these experiences out of their systems the filmmakers weren't tremendously concerned in getting them into ours. A Chabrol masterpiece like Le Boucher is made with Chabrol's attention totally absorbed in how he's affecting us; this time, working with people he has known for a long time and telling their most intimate secrets, he sometimes seems to be simply watching along with the rest of us."^[2]

John Simon described Une Partie de plasir's story as "partly trivial, and partly unbelievable".^[3] Simon went on to say the film's characters are "too bad, too good, or too stupid to be true, and neither plot nor dialogue comes to the rescue".^[3]

Vincent Canby of The New York Times was more positive, writing "The film is much more interesting and more haunting, though, as a meditation on love, on the complex system of balances that work in any love relationship, and on the furies that can be let loose within such relationships when the balances are disturbed."^[4] He added, "Not since Les Biches has Mr. Chabrol so wittily (and mercilessly) examined the wars that are fought in life's living rooms and bedrooms, in kitchens and over dining room tables with friends as neutral, sometimes amused, sometimes appalled observers."^[4]

Notes

^ Milne, Tom (July 1977). "Une Partie de Plaisir". Sight & Sound. BFI. p. 193. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b Ebert, Roger (14 April 1977). "A Piece of Pleasure". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
^ ^a ^b Simon, John (1983). Something to Declare: Twelve Years Of Films from Abroad. Clarkson N. Potter Inc. p. 281. ISBN 978-0517549032.
^ ^a ^b Canby, Vincent (21 May 1976). "Screen: Chabrol On Love's Wars". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 1 August 2024.

External links

Pleasure Party at IMDb
Pleasure Party at Rotten Tomatoes

Films directed by Claude Chabrol

Le Beau Serge (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
Web of Passion (1959)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Wise Guys (1961)
The Third Lover (1962)
Landru (1963)
Ophélia (1963)
Code Name: Tiger (1964)
Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha (1965)
Six in Paris (segment "La Muette") (1965)
Our Agent Tiger (1965)
Line of Demarcation (1966)
The Champagne Murders (1967)
The Road to Corinth (1967)
Les Biches (1968)
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
This Man Must Die (1969)
Le Boucher (1970)
The Breach (1970)
Just Before Nightfall (1971)
Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
Dr. Popaul (1972)
Wedding in Blood (1973)
Nada (1974)
Pleasure Party (1975)
Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
Death Rite (1976)
The Twist (1976)
Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
Blood Relatives (1978)
Violette Nozière (1978)
The Horse of Pride (1980)
The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
The Blood of Others (1984)
Cop au Vin (1985)
Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
Masks (1987)
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Story of Women (1988)
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Dr. M (1990)
Madame Bovary (1991)
Betty (1992)
The Eye of Vichy (1993)
Hell (1994)
La Cérémonie (1995)
The Swindle (1997)
The Color of Lies (1999)
Merci pour le Chocolat (2000)
The Flower of Evil (2003)
The Bridesmaid (2004)
Comedy of Power (2006)
A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
Bellamy (2009)

Paul Gégauff

Films written

Les Cousins (1959)
Web of Passion (1959)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
Purple Noon (1960)
Wise Guys (1961)
Le Signe du Lion (1962)
The Third Lover (1962)
Ophélia (1963)
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)
The Champagne Murders (1967)
Diabolically Yours (1967)
Les Biches (1968)
More (1969)
The Scarlet Lady (1969)
This Man Must Die (1969)
Les Novices (1970)
Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
Dr. Popaul (1972)
La Vallée (1972)
Pleasure Party (1975)
Death Rite (1976)
Ave Maria (1984)
Frankenstein 90 (1984)

Danièle Gégauff

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