Le Plaisir [Criterion Collection]

Max Ophuls and Jacques Natanson adapted three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: The Mask, in which a philanderer at a ball hides his advanced age behind a mask; The House of Madame Tellier, in which a bordello closes its doors so its staff can attend a girl's first communion; and The Model, about an artist who marries his model after she disables herself in a suicidal gesture. (Alternate title: House Of Pleasure)