Le Sourire 4K Restored Edition [Special Price]

[Machine Translation] Love, eroticism, lust, and the fantasy of the Lolita complex begin with sex.... The film depicts the ultimate in eroticism with a limpid sensibility. Director Claude Mirer's film, inspired by Kawabata Yasunari's "Sleeping Beauty," a story about an old man who is captivated by a girl who sleeps as if dead in a brothel, depicts the days of a man near death, his craving for Eros, and his search for love. --In a summer resort in the suburbs of Paris, Pierre-Francois, the director of a mental hospital suffering from heart disease, is driven by a momentary desire to find the last woman and make fiery love, as he is afraid that he may die at any moment from another stroke. And Odile ( Emmanuelle Seigner ), young and beautiful, always holds the attention of the men around her and feels pleasure in it. While walking in an amusement park, Odile is somehow drawn to the park's strip theater.... One day, they happen to meet on a train. One day, they happen to meet on a train, and Francois falls in love at first sight with Odile's sleeping beauty and her smile, and asks her out on a date at the tennis court where they meet for the second time. Later, Odile becomes friends with Jean-Jean, a striptease promoter at an amusement park, and makes a surprising choice...

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セックスから始まる愛、エロティシズム、欲望、ロリータ・コンプレックスの幻想・・・。清冽な感受性で、エロスの極致を描く・・・。クロード・ミレール監督が、川端康成の『眠れる美女』"娼館で、死んだように眠る少女の虜になる老人の物語"をモチーフとして、死を間近にした男の、エロスへの渇望と愛を探す日々を描く。――パリ郊外の避暑地、心臓病を患う精神病院の院長ピエール=フランソワは、再度の発作でいつ死んでもおかしくないという思いから、最後の女を見つけ、燃えるような恋をしたいという刹那的な欲望に駆られていた。そして、若く美しいオディール (エマニュエル・セニエ)は、常に周りの男たちの視線を釘付けにし、それに快感を感じていた。とある遊園地を歩きながら、オディールはなぜか園内のストリップ劇場に吸い寄せられていく・・・。ある日、そんな二人が偶然、列車の中で出逢う。眠っている美しいオディールの肢体と微笑みにフランソワは一目惚れ、二度目に逢ったテニスコートでデートに誘う。その後、オディールは遊園地のストリップショーの呼び込みをするジャンジャンとも親しくなり、そして驚くべき選択をする・・・。