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Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Ophüls' graceful camerawork and visual portrayal of luxury and loss make Earrings a powerful French drama.
Theatrical Release:Mar 16, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Debucourt
Director: Max Ophuls
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For the five-year period from 1950-55 (shortly before he died), Max Ophuls was arguably the world's greatest filmmaker creating La Ronde, Le Plaisir, Lola Montes, and this masterful study of a tragic, three-cornered romance.
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Like its turn-of-the-century décor and costuming, it is elegant and filled with decorative but basically unnecessary little items, which give it gentility and a nostalgic mood, but nothing much more substantial.
Three good reasons you should see The Earrings of Madame de … are the presence and performances of Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer and Vittorio De Sica. This celestial triangle has never been surpassed in grace, charm and, yes, wit and humor.
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Lavish, memorable romance
Ophuls's camera style is famous for its physicalization of time, in which every fleeting moment is recorded and made palpable by the ceaseless tracking shots, yet his delineation of space is also sublime and highly charged.
Top CriticOphüls' penultimate film.
Ravisihing classic made at the height of Ophuls' career (La Ronde, Lola Montes), this much admired film is flawless in subtle narrative and lavish style as an indictment of socio-sexual mores of European aristocracy splendidly acted by Darrieux and Boyer
Ravisihing classic made at the height of Ophuls' career (La Ronde, Lola Montes), this much admired film is flawless in subtle narrative and lavish style as an indictment of socio-sexual mores of European aristocracy splendidly acted by Darrieux and Boyer
Evanescence is an integral part of cinema, and no other director captured it as lyrically and yet as savagely as Ophüls.
The tracking shots effortlessly glide down corridors, into rooms, through gardens. They particularly shine during two dancing scenes, where the smooth movements of the partners are echoed by the graceful camera capturing every move in perfect sync.
On one hand, Madame De . . . is all surface and style; on the other, it conveys real loss.
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Rich in story and character.
It's powerful stuff, but Ophuls' graceful, gliding camera movements provide a sense of beautiful inevitability.
Surely one of the most cruelly tragic, and sublimely funny, melodramas of all time.
No film director intoxicates the soul like Max Ophuls.
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Haunting romantic tragedy.
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