Actor : Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Mirelle Perrey, Jean Debucourt Director: Max Ophuls Genre: Drama Year: 1953 Studio: Criterion Collection Length: 100 Released: August 6, 2013 Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating) Format: Blu-ray Hi-Def DVD Misc: NTSC, Black & White Language: French subtitles: English
DESCRIPTION:
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls (La ronde), THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE. . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (Le plaisir’s extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Gaslight’s Charles Boyer) in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls’s adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel employs the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned, to ravishing effect.
Special Features:
New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural
Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar
Introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson
Interviews with director Max Ophuls's collaborators
Visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
Archival interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell
Actor : Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Mirelle Perrey, Jean Debucourt Director: Max Ophuls Genre: Drama Year: 1953 Studio: Criterion Collection Length: 100 Released: August 6, 2013 Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating) Format: Blu-ray Hi-Def DVD Misc: NTSC, Black & White Language: French subtitles: English
DESCRIPTION:
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls (La ronde), THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE. . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (Le plaisir’s extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Gaslight’s Charles Boyer) in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls’s adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel employs the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned, to ravishing effect.
Special Features:
New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural
Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar
Introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson
Interviews with director Max Ophuls's collaborators
Visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
Archival interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Molly Haskell