Pleasure Party

Pleasure Party (French: Une partie de plaisir; released in North America as A Piece of Pleasure) is a 1975 French film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring its screenwriter and longtime Chabrol collaborator Paul Gégauff.

[1] Philippe and Esther are happily married and living a middle class life with their young daughter.

In order to add excitement and sophistication to the marriage, Philippe suggests they begin sleeping with other people then describing it to each other.

[3] Simon went on to say the film's characters are "too bad, too good, or too stupid to be true, and neither plot nor dialogue comes to the rescue".

[3] Vincent Canby of The New York Times was more positive, writing "The film is much more interesting and more haunting, though, as a meditation on love, on the complex system of balances that work in any love relationship, and on the furies that can be let loose within such relationships when the balances are disturbed.