Moving Pictures: The European Films of Max Ophüls

In what Jean-Luc Godard once called the greatest film made in France since the liberation, Ophüls weaves together three Guy de Maupassant stories about pleasure. In the first, an old man regains youth by wearing a mask; in the second, a group of prostitutes go on a country holiday; and in the third a painter is forced to marry one of his models after she attempts suicide. In French with English subtitles. (France, 1952, 35mm, b/w, 95 min.)