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The Earrings of Madame De...
(Madame De...)

Screening on Film
Directed by Max Ophüls.
With Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio de Sica.
France/Italy, 1953, 35mm, black & white, 102 min.
French with English subtitles.

With his characteristic use of long tracking shots that transcend space and his ability to coax sensitive performances from his actors, Max Ophüls created in The Earrings of Madame de... what film critic Andrew Sarris has described as “the most perfect film ever made.” The story follows the movement of a pair of diamond earrings that a debt-laden socialite (Darrieux) pawns back to their maker. Originally commissioned by her husband (Boyer) and given to her the day after her wedding, the earrings pass through a series of hands only to wind up back in the woman’s possession.

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