Title:
Earrings of Madame de--
ISBN:
9781604650617
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2008.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
General Note:
Based on a novel by Louise de Vilmorin.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953.
Special features: Introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson; Optional audio commentary with film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar; Interviews with Ophuls's collaborators Alain Jessua, Marc Frederix and Annette Wademant; Visual analysis by film scholar Tag Gallagher; Interview with novelist Louise de Vilmorin; essay by Molly Haskell; excerpt from costume designer Georges Annenkov's book; the novel, "Madame de."
Contents:
Book chapters: Cast and credits -- The cost of living / Molly Haskell -- Dressing Madame de-- / George Annenkov -- Madame de-- / Louise de Vilmorin ; translated from the French by Duff Cooper -- About the transfer.
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Summary:
The wife of a 19th century General sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts, which sets off a chain reaction of deceit that includes her husband, his mistress, and her lover.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, NTSC; FULL SCREEN (1.33:1) PRESENTATION; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
Language Note:
IN FRENCH WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
