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Gaumont
Directed by: Max Ophuls
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.
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Format: DVD
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1.33:1
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French 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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English
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1
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1 Disc |
DVD-9
Supplements
- Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar
- Introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson
- Interviews with director Max Ophuls’s collaboratorsAlan Jessua, Marc Frédérix, and Annette Wademant
- Visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
- Interview with writer Louise de Vilmorin about Ophuls’s adaptation of her novel
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell, an excerpt from costume designer Georges Annenkov’s 1962 book Max Ophuls, and Louise de Vilmorin’s 1951 source novel, Madame de
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Artwork: Eric Skillman
Producer: Johanna Schiller
Artwork: David Downton
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