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...PARTIE DE PLAISIR. Claude Chabrol's devastating study of a common-law marriage breaking up, with particular attention paid to the problems of self-absorption and the childishness of the male ego. Psychologically shrewd, dramatically stunning, it is a masterful cautionary tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Year's Best | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Partie de Plaisir. Nothing pleasant here, but rather Claude Chabrol's story of two unwed partners who play around on the side, driving the male in this hip arrangement to show his true chauvanist, possessive, jealous and increasingly inhuman colors. We cautioned you about the cruel commentary on the new morality in Alpha-Beta last week, but at least the outcome of that romantic fiasco stayed pretty much up in the air. The wind-up here is far less ambiguous: this Mr. Machismo stomps his liberated and true love's face in with his bootheel. Subtle, Chabrol, subtle...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: FILM | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...Partie De Plaisir...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Film | 7/2/1976 | See Source »

...PARTIE DE PLAISIR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Piece of Truth | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...real dirt-what the French call le hard core-has come from the U.S. One American import, History of the Blue Movie (seductively retitled Anthologie du Plaisir), recently played at 14 theaters in Paris. French distributors are now fighting for the rights to such American porn "classics" as Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Now, le Hard Core | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

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