Pleasure Party (1975)

Original title

Une partie de plaisir

Directed by

Claude Chabrol

Genre

comedy drama

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A writer's marriage begins to fall apart, leading to increasingly destructive behavior. The situation involves his wife and daughter and eventually ends badly.

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What happens

Pleasure Party (French: Une partie de plaisir; released in North America as A Piece of Pleasure) 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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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