The Earrings of Madame De...
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 16, 2008
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles Boyer | |
Performer: | Vittorio De Sica, Danielle Darrieux & Jean Debucourt | |
Directed by | Max Ophüls | |
Screenwriting by | Marcel Achard, Annette Wademant & Marcel Ophuls | |
Director of Photography: | Christian Matras |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Slighter and more emotionally distant than Ophüls's masterpiece 'Letter from an Unknown Woman', but filled with a similar mood of romantic despair and desperation.
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Time Out
A socialite hocks her diamonds to pay her shopping debts, sparking a series of lies, heartbreak, and tragedy....Savage and mesmerizing... -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
On one hand, Madame De . . . is all surface and style; on the other, it conveys real loss.
Village Voice
Rating: 10/10 --
Ophuls didn't make it look effortless; he simply made it look flawless. Perfection that produces a sense of awe and the (accurate) impression that nobody else could have made it.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 1.5/4 --
...a lifeless, all-too-theatrical period piece that's hardly able to engender the lush, romantic vibe that Ophuls is clearly striving for.
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Reel Film Reviews
...It glitters and dazzles....The film is famous for its elaborate camera movements, its graceful style, its sets, its costumes....We sit in admiration of Ophuls' visual display, so fluid and intricate...
Chicago Sun-Times
Ophüls' penultimate film.
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Time Out
Product Description:
MADAME DE... is set in the glittering world of Paris high society in the dizzy days before World War One. Madame de...(it is one of the films running jokes that we never learn her name) is played by Danielle Darrieux, a beautiful, charming woman married to Andre (Charles Boyer) a worldly Army General. She is pursued by numerous men in hope of an illicit affair. She doesn't say yes, but never quite says no, preferring, as her suitor Baron Fabrizio (Vittorio De Sica) says, "torture by hope."
When she takes off the earrings her husband gave her and sells them in order to pay off a debt, the jeweler sells them back to the General, who gives them to his mistress, who gambles them away. They are unknowingly purchased by Baron Fabrizio, who gives them to Madame de... as a sign of his love. But to wear them she must lie to her husband about how she got them back and to her lover about where they came from. Here, as in LETTER FROM AN UKNOWN WOMAN, Ophüls shows his skill in depicting the world of European society. His sense of staging and camera movement perfectly capture not just the mood and feel of the time, but also the emotions of the characters.
When she takes off the earrings her husband gave her and sells them in order to pay off a debt, the jeweler sells them back to the General, who gives them to his mistress, who gambles them away. They are unknowingly purchased by Baron Fabrizio, who gives them to Madame de... as a sign of his love. But to wear them she must lie to her husband about how she got them back and to her lover about where they came from. Here, as in LETTER FROM AN UKNOWN WOMAN, Ophüls shows his skill in depicting the world of European society. His sense of staging and camera movement perfectly capture not just the mood and feel of the time, but also the emotions of the characters.
Description by Image Entertainment:
French master Max Ophuls's most cherished work, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is an emotionally profound, cinematographically adventurous tale of false opulence and tragic romance. When the aristocratic woman known only as Madame de . . . (the extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells her earrings, unbeknownst to her husband (Charles Boyer), in order to pay personal debts, she sets off a chain reaction, the financial and carnal consequences of which can only end in despair. Ophuls adapts Louise de Vilmorin's incisive fin de siecle novella with virtuosic camera work so elegant and precise it's been called the equal to that of Orson Welles.
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- UPC: 715515031622
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