The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 film by Max Ophüls / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Earrings of Madame de... (French: Madame de... [ma.dam də]) is a 1953 romantic drama film directed by Max Ophüls from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marcel Achard and Annette Wademant, based on the 1951 novel Madame de... by Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin. The film is considered a masterpiece of 1950s French cinema. Andrew Sarris called it "the most perfect film ever made".[1] 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".[2]
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French | Madame de... |
Directed by | Max Ophüls |
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Based on | Madame de... by Louise de Vilmorin |
Produced by | Ralph Baum |
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Cinematography | Christian Matras |
Edited by | Borys Lewin |
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Distributed by | Gaumont Film Company |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
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Language | French |
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 obscured by noise or a camera trick.