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                     The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
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STARS...........: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
DIRECTOR........: Max Ophuls
WRITERS.........: Marcel Achard, Max Ophuls, Annette Wademant
GENRE...........: Drama, Romance
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046022
RUNTIME.........: 1h 40mn
SIZE............: 5.14 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1440x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.33:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: French FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary with film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-03-06


The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, 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... (Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay some debts, 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 to ravishing effect the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned.


Extras

• Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar
• Introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson
• Interviews with director Max Ophuls’s collaborators Alain Jessua, Marc Frederix, and Annette Wademant
• Visual essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
• Interview with writer Louise de Vilmorin about Ophuls’s adaptation of her novel