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The Earrings of Madame de... is a french film of genre Drama directed by Max Ophüls released in USA on 19 july 1954 with Charles Boyer
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 19 july 1954
Length 1h40
Directed by Max Ophüls
OriginFrance
Themes Films about sexuality
Rating78%
The Earrings of Madame de… (French: Madame de… [ma.dam də]) is a 1953 drama film directed by Max Ophüls, adapted from Louise Leveque de Vilmorin's period novel by Ophüls, Marcel Archard and Annette Wadement. The film is considered a masterpiece of the 1950s French cinema. Andrew Sarris called it "the most perfect film ever made". Ophüls said the story's construction attracted him, stating "there is always the same axis around which the action continually turns like a carousel. A tiny, scarcely visible axis: a pair of earrings."
The film's different titles reflect on the fact that the surname of the Madame in question - the same as that of her husband's - is never heard nor seen onscreen. The few times in the film when it might be revealed, it is elided by noise or a camera trick.
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Louise (Danielle Darrieux) is an aristocratic woman of Belle Époque Paris, married to André (Charles Boyer), both a count and a high-ranking French army general. Louise is a beautiful, but spoiled and superficial, woman who has amassed debts due to her lifestyle. She arranges to secretly sell her costly heart-shaped diamond earrings, a wedding present from her husband, to the original jeweler, Mr Rémy (Jean Debucourt). Relations between Louise and André are companionable, but they sleep in separate beds, have no children, and André has a secret mistress, of whom he has recently tired. Louise disguises the disappearance of the earrings by pretending to have lost them at the opera. The search for them eventually reaches the newspapers ("Theft at the Theatre") which in turn prompts Rémy to go to André and "discreetly" offer to sell them back. He accepts cheerfully and, rather than confront his wife, coolly gifts the earrings to his mistress, Lola (Lia Di Leo) whom he happens to be seeing off permanently to Constantinople.Actors
Charles Boyer
(Général André de...)
Danielle Darrieux
(Comtesse Louise de...)
Vittorio De Sica
(Baron Fabrizio Donati)
Jean Debucourt
(Monsieur Rémy)
Jean Galland
(Monsieur de Bernac)
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