July Special Subject – Duels in Max Ophüls – LIEBELEI (1933); LETTER FROM AN UNKOWN WOMAN (1948); and THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… (1953)
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Our Special Subject for this month, Duels in Max Ophüls, covers films from all three decades of the itinerant filmmaker's career: Liebelei (1933), made in Germany; Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), made in Hollywood; and Madame de... (1953), made in France. We consider the proposition that Ophüls' films are about superficially superficial people, and examine the evolution of a certain set of characters and scenarios in these three films dealing with the subject of tragic love and its (futile?) transformative effects.
Time Codes:
0h 01m 00s: LIEBELEI (1934) [dir. Max Ophüls]
0h 37m 18s: LETTER FROM AN UNKOWN WOMAN (1948) [dir. Max Ophüls]
0h 59m 41s: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… (1953) [dir. Max Ophüls]
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