Word: plaisir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think the Brattle managers handled their publicity correctly," Benjamin Sack, owner of the Beacon Hill Theatre, explained. "I think Miss Julie deserved a longer showing." He himself proceeded to sign a contract with Times Films to exhibit The Game of Love, One Summer of Happiness, Manon, Le Plaisir, and Gigi--all of which are noted for their censorable subject matter...
...Carnival in Flanders has a picture tried so many things at once and brought them all off so well. To begin with, the wonderfully overdone upper-class interiors (designed by Jean d'Eaubonne) are photographed with a languid infatuation that moviegoers who saw La Ronde and Le Plaisir will recognize as characteristically Ophulent. And yet, at the same time, it is clear that Ophuls is unmistakably smiling at his own bad taste...
...Plaisir (Max Ophuls; Mayer-Kingsley) is a Gallic study of pleasure seen through the magnifying lens of three short stories by Guy de Maupassant...