445 - The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
Random Acts of Cinema
English - August 21, 2023 14:53 - 1 hour - 80.9 MB - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsVisual Arts Arts TV & Film criterion movies cinema film Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The romantic misadventures of the continental European upper class of the nineteenth century? Making use of expertly-machined narrative devices that play with pattern, coincidence, and repetition? Sounds to me like director Max Ophüls has gone and made another movie. A pair of diamond earrings are sold to discreetly pay off a debt… and that should have been enough. But sometimes, the earrings come back.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Godfrey Reggio’s Powaqqatsi (1988).