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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0978320815881
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 101927
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Taken at face value, the French/Italian/British Earrings of Madame De... is a romantic roundelay, based on a popular novel by Louise de Vilmorin. Countess Danielle Darrieux sells her valuable earrings, a gift from Charles Boyer, her military officer husband. Darrieux tells Boyer a different story, claiming that she lost the earrings while attending the opera. This story reaches the newspapers, whereupon the jeweler who bought the earrings resells them to Boyerwho chooses to say nothing of this, and gives the baubles to his mistress Lia Di Leo. While on holiday, Darrieux falls in love with diplomat Vittorio de Sica. He offers her a token of his esteem: the selfsame earrings, which he won from Di Leo at the gambling tables and so it goes, until Darrieux's initial harmless deception ends in tragedy. It is not so much the story that matters as what is done with the story by master director Max Ophuls, he of the luxuriously liquid camera technique and complex tracking shots.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - One of Max Ophuls most elegant and saddest films, with superb performances by Boyer, Darrieux and De Sica
What a sad, elegant film this is. The Earrings of Madame de... takes us into the fin de siecle Parisian world of the mannered rich, where the act of amorous intimacy is as much an expected social obligation as it is a personal pleasure, where a serious discussion about serious things is considered as indiscrete as loving one's spouse.
"Madame de... is a most elegant lady," we are told, "distinguished, received everywhere. She seemed destined to a delightful, untroubled existence. Doubtless ... Read More
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