You are bidding on a brand new, sealed, never played Special Edition Dvd of The Earrings Of Madame De… directed by Max Ophuls.

The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de . . . (Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls’s adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin’s incisive fin de siècle novel employs to ravishing effect the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned.

This dvd is Criterion Collection Spine #445.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Special Edition Features:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer

Audio commentary featuring film scholars Susan White and Gaylyn Studlar

Introduction by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

Interviews with director Max Ophuls’s collaborators Alan Jessua, Marc Frédérix, and Annette Wademant

A visual analysis of the movie by film scholar Tag Gallagher

Interview with writer Louise de Vilmorin about Ophuls’s adaptation of her novel

New and improved English subtitle translation

Plus: A new essay by critic Molly Haskell, an excerpt from costume designer Georges Annenkov’s 1962 book Max Ophuls, and Vilmorin’s 1951 source novel, Madame de.

DVD is shrink-wrapped. Tear to one side of shrink-wrap.

Originally released 1953. Dvd released 2008 by The Criterion Collection. Feature runs approximately 100 minutes. ISBN: 978-1-60465-061-7.