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| Danièle Gegauff | ... | Esther | |
| Paul Gégauff | ... | Philippe | |
| Clemence Gégauff | ... | Elise | |
| Paula Moore | ... | Sylvia Murdoch | |
| Cécile Vassort | ... | Annie | |
| Giancarlo Sisti | ... | Habib | |
| Mario Santini | ... | Rosco | |
| Michel Valette | ... | Katkof | |
| Pierre Santini | ... | Michel | |
| Henri Attal | ... | Le codétenu | |
| Jean Cherlian | |||
| Jacqueline Clément | |||
| Alain David | |||
| Tony Librizzi | |||
| Dominique Marcas | |||
| Aurora Maris | ... | Louise | |
| Jean-Christophe Queff | ... | François (as Jean-Chrsitophe Quef) | |
| Isabelle Del Rio | (as Isabel Del Rio) | ||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| René Piget | ... | (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Claude Chabrol | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Paul Gégauff | (written by) | |
Produced by | |||
| André Génovès | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Pierre Jansen | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Jean Rabier | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Jacques Gaillard | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Guy Littaye | |||
Costume Design by | |||
| Nadine Dessalles | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Maud Begon | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Guy Azzi | .... | executive in charge of production | |
| Patrick Delauneux | .... | unit manager | |
| Pierre Gauchet | .... | production manager | |
| Louis Pichot | .... | assistant unit manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Philippe Delabre | .... | assistant director | |
| Michel Dupuy | .... | first assistant director | |
| Claus Weeke | .... | assistant director | |
Art Department | |||
| Henri Berger | .... | property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Guy Chichignoud | .... | sound | |
| Yvan Dacquay | .... | assistant sound (as Yves Dacquay) | |
| Louis Devaivre | .... | foley artist | |
| Maurice Gilbert | .... | sound mixer | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Alain Douarinou | .... | camera operator | |
| André Marquette | .... | assistant camera | |
| Raymond Menvielle | .... | assistant camera | |
| Marie Savnier | .... | still photographer (as Marie Saunier) | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Patrick Santini | .... | assistant editor | |
| Michel Simonnet | .... | assistant editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Aurore Chabrol | .... | script supervisor (as Aurore Paquiss) | |
| Marie-Christine Lachiver | .... | production secretary | |
| Jacqueline Oblin | .... | production administrator | |
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'Une Partie de Plaisir' is minor Chabrol and has many of the problems of his considerably worse 'L'Enfer.' It's another morality tale cum horror story, with swinger Paul Gegauff's marriage and world coming unstuck after he encourages his wife to have affairs. It's not that she sleeps with other men when he clearly was expecting her not to, but that instead of deriving all her ideas from him she starts to take them from her lovers as well and gradually, as her dependency on him lessens, his need to mould and control her grows until he can no longer live with her or without her. While it never falls into L'Enfer's farcical inadvertent comedy, it shares a tiringly repetitive third act where the only way to top one outrage is with another, until it becomes comic and rather boring. Screenwriter Gegauff's performance in the lead is brave but not always entirely successful, his face veering between a very literal copy of the two stone masks of Greek tragedy and comedy to an almost frightening degree as the film progresses.
Interesting, brave but not entirely successful, it's a film I doubt I'll feel any compulsion to return to in the future.