Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura—along with a stunning cast of French stars—to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure.
Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century French life, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling bravura—along with a stunning cast of French stars—to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the limits of spiritual and physical pleasure.
