This is such a beautiful and engaging film. The set pieces are so dreamy and the acting is fantastic.
Off topic but on topic I lost a pair of really beautiful earrings a few years ago and I hope I can find them again someday.
This really is one of the greats. Did you get to watch it in French? Ophuls was not only a king of travelling but he also uses sound in a very intresting way. I love so many things in this film. The scene in the library is a masterclass of directing imo. I would definitely advise watching "la ronde" and "le plaisir", which are also masterpieces.
The best thing about "Madame de..." (french title) is that I don't know how much she loves him and how much she pretends. At some point the general says "Grief can be invented" (le malheur s'invente in french), and indeed Madame de... is so superficial that she seems to be fighting to have something real in her life, even if its her downfall. It's like she got lost playing her own game. As she says "the woman I was made the misfortune of the one I've become". Not only is happiness superficial but pain also is. People are unable to grasp the truth of their feelings. This such a moving and desperate take on the human condition. In the end not even suicide can give life a meaning.
This is such a beautiful and engaging film. The set pieces are so dreamy and the acting is fantastic.
Off topic but on topic I lost a pair of really beautiful earrings a few years ago and I hope I can find them again someday.
This really is one of the greats. Did you get to watch it in French? Ophuls was not only a king of travelling but he also uses sound in a very intresting way. I love so many things in this film. The scene in the library is a masterclass of directing imo. I would definitely advise watching "la ronde" and "le plaisir", which are also masterpieces.
The best thing about "Madame de..." (french title) is that I don't know how much she loves him and how much she pretends. At some point the general says "Grief can be invented" (le malheur s'invente in french), and indeed Madame de... is so superficial that she seems to be fighting to have something real in her life, even if its her downfall. It's like she got lost playing her own game. As she says "the woman I was made the misfortune of the one I've become". Not only is happiness superficial but pain also is. People are unable to grasp the truth of their feelings. This such a moving and desperate take on the human condition. In the end not even suicide can give life a meaning.
Yeah I saw it in French. I have the Criterion blu ray for it and I think it's as close to the original as it can get.
I agree with that too! Like the fainting spells at the beginning, I was like "okay is this chick pretending?" Have you read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt? They're totally different works but both works do share the themes of how inanimate objects give our life some amount of meaning and they also deal with the interactions the upper classes have and how superficial happiness and pain can be.
I agree with that too! Like the fainting spells at the beginning, I was like "okay is this chick pretending?" Have you read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt? They're totally different works but both works do share the themes of how inanimate objects give our life some amount of meaning and they also deal with the interactions the upper classes have and how superficial happiness and pain can be.
No, I haven't read it, thank you for the recommandation. I personnally had linked the film with Camus'writings on the absurd.
