Ophüls' penultimate film.
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06/24/06
The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 20 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.9/10
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Ophüls' graceful camerawork and visual portrayal of luxury and loss make Earrings a powerful French drama.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
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 by Danielle Darrieux, a beautiful, charming woman married to Andre (Charles Boyer) a worldly Army... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Debucourt
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Justifying the superlatives heaped upon it by film-makers and critics alike, this is one of Ophüls' finest achievements, a period drama marked by formal beauty and intense feeling.
05/24/03
Top Critic
The brilliance of "Earrings" is in the precision with which Ophuls carefully strips away all the luxury until what we see is not the extravagance, but the wounded, tragic marriage that the extravagance is meant to hide.
06/01/07
It's powerful stuff, but Ophuls' graceful, gliding camera movements provide a sense of beautiful inevitability.
03/22/07
Evanescence is an integral part of cinema, and no other director captured it as lyrically and yet as savagely as Ophüls.
03/16/07
On one hand, Madame De . . . is all surface and style; on the other, it conveys real loss.
03/13/07
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.
03/07/07
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 synch.
07/22/03
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.
05/20/03
Top Critic
Surely one of the most cruelly tragic, and sublimely funny, melodramas of all time.
06/03/02
One of the most mannered and contrived love movies ever filmed. It glitters and dazzles, and beneath the artifice it creates a heart, and breaks it.
11/24/01
Top Critic
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.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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