Earrings of Madame de...
by Max Ophuls
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Actor: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Debucourt, Madeleine Barbulee, Paul Az??isDirector: Max Ophuls
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
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Summary: 5 Stars
This 1953 B&W French film (with subtitles, if needed) by the fantastic Max Oph?ls is stunning! Charles Boyer is the husband, the G?n?ral, and his wife is the beautiful Danielle Darrieux; her eyes alone are mesmerizing. The cinematography is sensational, the pictures crisp and well framed. You almost feel as though you are part of the film. The story, set in Paris of the late 19th century, is of a romantic triangle between the G?n?ral, his wife, and her handsome lover -- and the earrings that pass amongst them. It's entertaining on so many levels -- there's romance, and comedy, and tragedy, and the musical score -- so brilliant -- this film is a winner!
Summary of Earrings of Madame de...
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.SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored high-definition digital transfer, Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar , Interviews with Ophuls collaborators Alain Jessua, Marc Frederix, and Annette Wademant
A visual analysis of The Earrings of Madame de . . . by film scholar Tag Gallagher, Interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin on Ophuls's adaptation of her story, New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A new essay by Molly Haskell, Louise de Vilmorin's novella Madame de, upon which the film is based, and a reprinted essay by costume designer and longtime Ophuls collaborator George Annenkov
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