Directed by: Max Ophuls
Featuring: Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Mila Parély, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Brasseur, Jean Gabin, Jean Servais, Daniel Gélin, Simone Simon, Paul Azaïs
Year: 1952
Time: 97 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 444
Licensor
Gaumont
Release Date: Tuesday, 16 September 2008
MSRP: $39.95
DVD
1 Disc
1.33:1
French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region 1
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-Pierre Berthomé discussing the evolution of Max Ophuls’s screenplay for Le plaisir
Interviews with actor Daniel Gélin, assistant director Tony Aboyantz, and set decorator Robert Christidès
Booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Robin Wood