Une partie de plaisir
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Une partie de plaisir 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. (In 1983, Gégauff was stabbed to death in real life by his second wife.) In this film, 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.
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
and starring its screenwriter and longtime Chabrol collaborator Paul Gégauff
Paul Gégauff
Paul Gégauff was a French screenwriter, actor and director. He collaborated with director Claude Chabrol on 14 films. Among his films are Les Biches, Plein Soleil and the autobiographical Une Partie de Plaisir...
. In the film, Gégauff plays a writer with a troubled marriage that ends in tragedy. (In 1983, Gégauff was stabbed to death in real life by his second wife.) In this film, his wife is played by his real-life first wife Danièle Gégauff
Danièle Gégauff
Danièle Gégauff was a french actress and line producer. She was married with the french actor and screenwriter Paul Gégauff. Danièle Gégauff worked with executive producer Stéphane Tchalgadjieff....
(already divorced when this film was made) and his daughter is played by real life daughter Clemence Gégauff.
Plot
Philippe and Ester 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 jealously and anger towards his wife until tragedy destroys the entire family.Cast
- Danièle GégauffDanièle GégauffDanièle Gégauff was a french actress and line producer. She was married with the french actor and screenwriter Paul Gégauff. Danièle Gégauff worked with executive producer Stéphane Tchalgadjieff....
as Esther - Paul GégauffPaul GégauffPaul Gégauff was a French screenwriter, actor and director. He collaborated with director Claude Chabrol on 14 films. Among his films are Les Biches, Plein Soleil and the autobiographical Une Partie de Plaisir...
as Philippe - Clemence Gégauff as Elise
- Paula Moore as Sylvia Murdoch
- Cécile VassortCécile VassortCécile Vassort is a French film actress. She has in 45 films between 1963 and 2001.-Selected filmography:* The Invitation * Deux hommes dans la ville * The Clockmaker * Malicious Pleasure...
as Annie - Giancarlo Sisti as Habib
- Mario Santini as Rosco
- Michel ValetteMichel ValetteMichel Valette is a cabaret performer, actor, composer, cartoonist and writer.In 1954, he created the cabaret La Colombe in Paris in the Ile de la Cité, and over the ten years that followed, he was beginning to make their more than 200 artists, including Guy Béart, Anne Sylvestre, Pierre Perret,...
as Katkof - Pierre Santini as Michel