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List Price: $39.95Amazon.com's Price: $27.99 You Save: $11.96 (30%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0715515031622
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 1650
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1953
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Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The magisterial Max Ophuls, and one of his greatest films....
Let me start off like this....bear with me...
I detest Hollywood chick flicks. They are simplistic, childish, silly, and completely unrealistic in their depiction of so-called romance. The term "romantic comedy" makes me nauseaous. Many friends and family members have come under the erroneous impression that I am not a romantic. Far from it. I prefer my romance of the old school, a deep, unshakeable romance, those feelings that if you're open to them, you cannot deny them at all. ... Read More
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
Rating: - A Rare Love Story that Sparkles.
Director Max Ophüls is known for his brilliant tracking shots and elaborate camera movements (which influenced Stanley Kubrick). He is also well known for the dazzling beauty of his 1953 black-and white film, The Earrings of Madame de . . ., which is based on a novel by Louise Leveque de Vilmorin. Set in Vienna in the late 19th century, the film tells the story of an elegant aristocratic woman, Countess Louisa (Danielle Darrieux) who, unbeknownst to her husband, General Andre (Charles Boyer), sells her ... Read More
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