More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones, Saint Teresa of Avila reputedly opined, but she never met Louise, Madame de… (Danielle Darrieux). For the vain, tragic heroine of Max ...

SIFF Cinema this week presents a return of Max Ophuls’ gorgeous 1953 drama, “The Earrings of Madame de … “ Its gentle, sad merry-go-round of a plot, set in 19th-century Paris, involves the fate of an ...

Dir. Max Ophuls (1953) The ultimate coquette, Danielle Darrieux, playing the surname-less comtesse of the title, sets the plot of Max Ophuls’s supreme 1953 tragedy in motion by selling jewels given to ...

When people have asked me to name the greatest film of all time—in my humble opinion, of course—my instant answer When people have asked me to name the greatest film of all time—in my humble opinion, ...

"Le Plaisir" (1952) is not the best of the three Max Ophuls classics Criterion is releasing Tuesday: That would be "The Earrings of Madame de ..." (1953), one of the greatest films ever made, and one ...

Proof that—as with The Third Man (Essential Movie Library #4), Tokyo Story (Essential Movie Library #17), and The Shop Around the Corner (Essential Movie Library #19)—greatness and perfection can ...

Denise Rosemonde "Rosine" Delamare (11 June 1911 – 17 March 2013) was a French costume designer. She was co-nominated for an Academy Award for her work on the film The Earrings of Madame de… (1953).