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Actors: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Paul Azäis, Madeleine Barbulee, Jean Debucourt
Directors: Max Ophuls
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: September 16, 2008
Run Time: 100 minutes
Average Customer Review:
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Reader Reviews
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 earrings to cover her personal debts. The General gave her the diamond earrings as a wedding gift. Remy the jeweler then sells them back to the General who, in turn, gives them to his mistress, Lola (Lia Di Leo). She gambles them away in Constantinople. The Countess then falls in love with an Italian, Baron Donati (Vittorio De Sica), who gives her the same earrings as a sign of his love. She must then deceive the General about how she got the earrings back. This film is like a rare, evanescent gem. From a technical standpoint it is brilliantly cut and the cinematography sparkles, which is reason enough to experience this of a film. Roger Ebert calls this film "one of the great pleasures of the cinema." The new Criterion edition features a newly restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar; interviews with Ophuls collaborators Alain Jessua, Mar Frédérix, and Annette Wademant; a visual analysis of The Earrings of Madame de . . . by film scholar Tag Gallagher; an interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin on Ophuls's adaptation of her story; new and improved English subtitle translation; and 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 Georges Annenkov. G. Merritt
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