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Une partie de plaisir (1975)

aka A Piece of Pleasure / Pleasure Party

DVDRip | XviD @ 1129kbps | 25fps | 592 x 352 | French AC3 (192) + RU Dub MP3 (128) + EN MP3 (VBR) with commentary | no sub | 96min | 1091MB | 2 Hosts

Genre: Drama

This uncomfortably voyeuristic Claude Chabrol effort was released in France as Une Partie De Plaisir. The story, which is little more than an elongated anecdote, details the destruction of a marriage at the hands of a domineering husband. To fully appreciate the perversity of Chabrol's concept, it should be noted that the leading character, Paul Gegauff, is playing "himself," and that Gegauff's ex-wife Danielle is costarred as his beleaguered partner. Even allowing for dramatic license, Gegauff comes off as a hateful brute; Curiously, he was murdered several years later by his second wife (Chabrol didn't get a chance to film that one). Interestingly, Chabrol had used the name "Paul" for many of the disruptive gadfly characters in his earlier films. Pleasure Party was also issued to some English-speaking markets as A Piece of Pleasure...

One of Claude Chabrol’s most underrated films, Une partie de plaisir is a surprising departure for a director who is best known for his Hitchcock-style psychological thrillers. The film offers a portrait of the male-female relationship that is both incisive and disturbing, evoking something of the work of the other great directors of the French New Wave, such as Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, but with an added twist of cruel perversity. The script was written by Paul Gégauff, who worked on several of Chabrol’s films and who plays the male lead in this film, opposite his ex-wife, Danièle – something which adds a frisson of realism to the proceedings.

The film is essentially an ironic study on the transience of romantic love. The main character, Philippe, resembles an artist who is constantly striving for perfection in his love life, and is incapable of seeing that his ambition is unattainable. Rather than accept the minor flaws in his relationship with his partner, Ester, he makes a series of moves that will quickly destroy it. Not only does he underestimate Ester’s resilience and ability to find love elsewhere, he also fails to recognise in himself the dark passions that will consume him as his scheme backfires. For Philippe, the ideal woman is immutable, like the waxworks he admires in the Grévin museum, someone he can possess absolutely, and understand implicitly. In his quest for a sterile perfection, he destroys a living love, as thoughtlessly as a child who plucks flowers, never realising for one moment that for a thing to be unchanging it must first die.

Une partie de plaisir may not be a thriller, but it is a chilling and compelling work, one of Claude Chabrol’s bleakest films, albeit with a touch of his trademark anti-bourgeois humour. The realist approach adopted by the director and Paul Gégauff’s intense naturalistic performance lend the film greater impact, making this one of French cinema’s most unsettling depictions of conjugal conflict and obsession.

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