Pros: showing pain beneath glittering surfaces, Boyer, Darrieux, De Sica Cons: many find it difficult to identify with any of the three pained lead characters
The typically splendid Criterion edition of Max Ophuls's 1953 "Earrings of Madame de..." (Just "Madame de..." in the French original) sustained my memory that it is a great movie. That does not mean I have to like it, only admire the skill with which ...
Pros: Great directing, visually stylish, farcical yet engaging, great performances Cons: White subtitles sometimes impossible to read
Max Ophüls was a great French director whose life was cut short when he was at the peak of his creative powers. In this, his penultimate work, he provides us with a somewhat contrived love story that shimmers and dazzles, combining romance, farce, ...
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