The Pleasure
Synopsis
In Europe today, as chance, deceits and desires run their course, the army conscript meets the nurse, the nurse gets back together with the comedian, the comedian meets the married woman, the married woman gets back together with the VIP, the VIP meets the mad dog, the mad dog gets back together with his old friend Loulou and Loulou, naturally, meets Jack the Ripper.
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Actors (25)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Noé Productions Int.
- Co-production : M6 Films
- Foreign production companies : Samsa Film, Artémis Productions, 3 Emme Cinematografica
- French distribution : Polygram
Full credits (22)
- Executive Producers : Marc Baschet, Cedomir Kolar
- Screenwriters : Nicolas Boukhrief, Dan Sasson
- Director of Photography : Jean-Max Bernard
- Music Composer : Nicolas Baby
- Assistant Director : Philippe Landoulsi
- Editor : Jacqueline Mariani
- Sound Recordist : Carlo Thoss
- Costume designer : Virginie Montel
- Foreign producers : Patrick Quinet, Jani Thiltges, Leo Pescarolo
- Voice : Vanessa Paradis
- Co-producer : Frédérique Dumas
- Sound Assistant : Pascal Jasmes
- Assistant Operator : Amandine Lacape
- Production managers : Marc Bodin-Joyeux, Mathieu Bompoint
- Press Attaché (film) : Isabelle Sauvanon
- Sound Editor : Frédéric Fichefet
- Continuity supervisor : Anne Wermelinger
- Production Designer : Jean-Vincent Puzos
- Art director : Ana Montañana Alba
- Sound Mixer : Cyril Holtz
- Still Photographer : Guy Ferrandis
- Unit Production Manager : Aimeric Bonello
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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TThe ‘fin-de-siècle’ genre exists in every art form, but this is the first end-of-the-century in the lifetime of the movies. Last time around, the art was in its infancy. I thought to myself, let’s tackle it Viennese-style, with a dark kind of lightness. Hence the Schnitzleresque structure. One story leads to another, and this progression takes us on a kind of round of inspection. I think our society has a very dark relationship to pleasure, but you always get that at the end of a century. You realize that flesh is sad and you’ve read all the books. At the end of the 20th century, pleasure is an advertising word. They always show you the satisfaction you’ll get, but never the dangers that come with it. Candy gives pleasure but they never say it makes kids fat. Everybody — in cities, at least — is out for instant gratification. Everybody wants the buzz and nobody thinks about the consequences. It’s like a mass hysteria. (Nicolas Boukhrief in Le Figaro, August 5, 1998)
