Madame De... 1953  N/R, 171 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Earrings of Madame De...
Director: Max Ophuls
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica, Mireille Perrey, Jean Debucourt, Serge Lecointe, Lia Di Leo, Jean Galland, Hubert Noel, Paul Azais, Josselin, Madeleine Barbulee, Gerard Buhr, Michel Salina, Colette Regis
Set in Paris during the early 19th century, the story begins when the wife, Comtesse Louise de... (Danielle Darrieux), of General Andre de... (Charles Boyer) sells her earrings to pay off a gambling debt and then tells her husband that she lost them. This sets off a series of events as the earrings are again bought and resold, revealing depth in the characters of the general and his wife. Good acting and directing.
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 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel, Anne Vernon, Ellen Farner, Mireille Perrey
This beautifully photographed and scored love story involves a woman who–finding herself pregnant by her lover away fighting in the war–marries another man. All dialog is sung, which causes the dubbed version to suffer compared to the subtitled one. Three musical Academy Award nominations were received as well as a nomination for Best Foreign Film.
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| 1. Madame De... (1953)
aka: The Earrings of Madame De...
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
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