EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1953
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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 siècle novella with virtuosic camera work so eloquent and precise it's been called the equal to that of Orson Welles.
• Cast: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Jean Galland, Mireille Perrey, Paul Azaïs, Hubert Noël, Lia Di Leo, Madeleine Barbulée, Charles Bayard, Jacques Beauvais, Gérard Buhr, Jean Degrave, Claire Duhamel, Guy Favières, Émile Genevois, Serge Lecointe, Franck Maurice, Max Mégy, Daniel Mendaille, Albert Michel, Robert Moor, Georges Paulais, Léon Pauléon, Colette Régis, Louis Saintève, Michel Salina, Germaine Stainval, Jean Toulout, Roger Vincent, Georges Vitray, Léon Walther, René Worms, Max Ophüls, Louise de Vilmorin, Marcel Achard, Annette Wademant
• Director: Max Ophüls
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Gaumont, Franco London Film, Indusfilms, The Criterion Collection, Janus Films
• Media Format: Movie