Double Feature: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE…, 1953, LE PLAISIR, 1952 September 6, 2012

Thursday, September 6 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE…, 1953, Janus Films, 105 min. "Director Max Ophuls' THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... is a romantic tragedy at its most sublime, in which the beautiful wife (Danielle Darrieux) of a rich, titled general (Charles Boyer) falls in love with a handsome, equally aristocratic Italian diplomat (Vittorio De Sica) amidst the most opulent Belle Epoque settings. A pair of diamond earrings triggers a chain of events that sets a deceptively light tone for the 1953 film." – Kevin Thomas. In French with English subtitles.
LE PLAISIR, 1952, Janus Films, 97 min. Max Ophuls brings his opulent, dazzling style to this triptych of tales by Guy de Maupassant about the ironies, compromises and pleasures of the human condition. Set in an array of richly textured, late 19th-century locales, spanning the bucolic French countryside to the artists’ studios and urban bordellos of Paris. With an all-star French cast including Jean Gabin, Simone Simon and Danielle Darrieux. Stanley Kubrick once named it as his favorite film. In French with English subtitles.

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