Interviewee
In an archival interview filmed in 1989, Robert Christidès discusses his work on Max Ophuls' 1952 film LE PLAISIR.
Self
Set Dresser
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.
Set Decoration
한 싸구려 소설의 작가가 자신을 멋진 영웅으로, 영국인 이웃을 자신의 연인으로 상상하는 이야기.
Set Dresser
Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?
Set Decoration
1930년대 마르세이유 항구도시. 범죄조직 신디케이트가 유행처럼 확산되고 도시에는 거대한 암흑 조직이 자라나고 있다. 갓 출옥한 로크 카펠라(아랑 드롱)는 옛 애인 로라를 되찾아 오고자 프랑소와 시프레디(장 폴 벨몽드)와 주먹대결을 벌인다. 그러다가 서로 의기투합한 두 사람은 권투 경기를 개최하는 등 작은 돈벌이를 하면서 기회를 노리다가 암흑조직의 보스인 폴리의 정육창고에 불을 지르면서 조직과 정면대결을 하게 된다. 또한 이들은 시장 후보자인 리날디의 저격사건으로 범죄조직의 거두인 마레오와 숙명의 한판을 벌이게 되는데...
세력을 잡기 위한 조직간의 피의 대결. 아랑 드롱과 장폴 벨몽드의 멋진 액션, 종반부에 프랑소와가 살해되면서 남기는 여운등은 진정한 영화팬이면 놓칠 수 없는 뛰어난 액션명작이다.
Set Dresser
American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Assistant Art Director
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
Set Decoration
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains), and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso; but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this 'by the hour' hotel, and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this under Feydeau's eye, and his play is the 'success fou' of the next season.
Set Decoration
Marcel and Francis are busy people. Marcel owns a café and spend all his nights running from meetings to meetings with members from the high society... at least, that's what he say to his barman! Francis leaves his home, loving wife and adorable daughter, frequently to attend meetings and demonstration with customers. His boss trusts him so much that his agenda is always full... at least, that's what he say to his wife! In fact, Marcel and Francis' incomes come from their night job: thieves! Here at least, they are professional. Troubles arise when, during one robbery, they encounter a young, high-pitched voice, candid girl who takes the decision to become their associate in crime... for the fun!
Set Dressing Artist
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Property Master
1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade
Set Decoration
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine's apartment, five afternoons a week, come to a halt when their partners learn the truth.
Set Dresser
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.
Set Decoration
The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.
Set Decoration
Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent, welcome to London Jimmy's 17-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane is from Jimmy's first marriage to an American and has come to visit her father and the step-mother she has never met. While visiting Sheila has the idea of making Jane a debutante, an idea Jane resists. Difficulties range from Jane's apathy to being placed on the marriage block, the determined efforts of Sheila's cousin, Mabel Claremont, to win wealthy David Fenner for her debutante daughter Clarissa, and Jane's attraction to David Parkson, an American drummer who plays in the orchestra at the coming-out balls.
Set Dresser
1919년의 파리, 천재적 재능을 가졌으나 그림이 팔리지 않아 가난에 시달리는 젊은 화가 모딜리아니. 어느 날, 지인의 초청으로 학교에 간 모디는 그곳에서 아름다운 미술학도 잔느를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 잔느의 부모의 반대에 부딪힌 모디와 잔느는 동거를 시작하고, 두 사람의 사랑은 깊어간다. 하지만 여전히 그림은 팔리지 않고, 모디는 쇠약해지는데, 악덕 미술상 모렐은 모디가 죽기만을 기다린다.
Set Decoration
프랑수아 트뤼포가 ‘진정한 작가’로 평가했던 거장 막스 오퓔스의 마지막 영화. 시네마 스코프와 풍부한 색감의 테크니컬러 등 당시로서는 매우 혁신적인 스타일을 선보인, 영화사적으로 상당히 주요한 작품이다. 19세기 사교계를 풍미했던 롤라가 서커스단의 주인공으로 등장해 플래시 백을 통해 자신의 과거를 들려주는 형식의 이 영화는 당시 제작사의 횡포로 다양한 버전의 판본이 존재하면서 정당한 평가를 받지 못했다.
