Madame De... (1953)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 105 minuten
Alternative titles: The Earrings of Madame de... / Diamond Earrings
Country:
France / Italy
Directed by: Max Ophüls
Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio De Sica
IMDb score:
7,9 (12.060)
Releasedate: 16 September 1953
Madame De... plot
"It was her vanity that destroyed her."
In Paris in the late 1800s, the wife of a wealthy general, Baroness Louise, sells the earrings her husband had given her on her wedding day to pay off her gambling debts. Her husband is not allowed to know about this so she pretends she has lost the earrings. When her husband finds out, it is the start of all kinds of intrigue.
Actors and actresses
Général André de...
Comtesse Louise de...
Baron Fabrizio Donati
Monsieur Rémy
Monsieur de Bernac
La Nourrice
Le premier cocher
Henri de Maleville
Lola
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Excellent, calm camera work, with great attention to detail in this black-and-white film that comes across as a kind of vaudeville, also contains drama but in fact mocks the stupidity of the rich.
Danielle Darrieux is adorable as usual, her two male counterparts are top-notch. De Sica has a serious Charles Chaplin allure.
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Silvio Dante
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- 2943 messages
- 2153 votes
Well... I can hardly shake the feeling that I've spent 100 minutes watching the whims of a spoiled brat with a sickening tendency toward hysteria, self-pity, and theatrics. Her final scene is perhaps the finest example of this; just watch how she quickly returns to the carriage to put on her dish before rushing off to meet her shot lover, then feigning heart failure and sending her nanny (who is probably twice her age and possibly a heart patient) up the mountain... It's all a bit much. A film about romance at the beginning of the 20th century quickly comes across as a film about a woman with a personality disorder at the beginning of our own. Fortunately, the general's cynicism and the majestic sets manage to redeem themselves somewhat. 2.5*
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Kiekerjan
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- 119 messages
- 106 votes
A quasi-empty melodrama in which a general's wife suffocates in the vacuum of the upper class. The protagonist isn't the typical innocent lamb constantly tormented, but there is a dysfunctional marriage, a hopeless fling, social pressure, a sense of captivity, and so on. Also present is the characteristic superficiality and lack of character development that they try to hide behind set design and costumes. I've seen similar productions where I could develop an almost perverse interest, but in this case, any enthusiasm on my part was completely absent. This is a crying shame. The story is thin as a bone and drags towards the finish line at an excruciatingly slow pace. Both the love triangle and the earrings create some underlying tension, but ultimately collapse like a failed soufflé. The characters leave me cold. "Madam" herself is an annoying bitch who I'd rather have ended up under a train. What De Sica is doing here is also a mystery to me. His blind obsession is, as expected, incomprehensible. This genre benefits from (overly) overblown acting, charismatic actors, and a buildup of tension that leads to sensational conflicts. Madame de... is dull, dated, and a waste of my time. The occasionally elegant camerawork, unfortunately, does little to change this.
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