Complete credited cast: | |||
Charles Boyer | ... | Général André de... | |
Danielle Darrieux | ... | Comtesse Louise de... | |
Vittorio De Sica | ... | Baron Fabrizio Donati | |
Jean Debucourt | ... | Monsieur Rémy | |
Jean Galland | ... | Monsieur de Bernac | |
Mireille Perrey | ... | La Nourrice | |
Paul Azaïs | ... | Le premier cocher | |
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Josselin | ||
Hubert Noël | ... | Henri de Maleville | |
Lia Di Leo | ... | Lola |
In the Paris of the late 19th century, Louise, wife of a general, sells the earrings her husband gave her as a wedding gift: she needs money to cover her debts. The general secretly buys the earrings again and gives them to his mistress, Lola, leaving to go to Constantinople. Where an Italian diplomat, Baron Donati, buys them. Back to Paris, Donati meets Louise... So now Louise discovers love and becomes much less frivolous. Written by Yepok
Max Ophuls directs this tale of romance and jealousy set near turn-of-the century France. Danielle Darrieux plays the unsatisfied wife of an adulterous French General, Charles Boyer. In order to pay off other frivolous expenses she has incurred, she sells off the earrings that her husband had presented to her on the day after their wedding, and then claims that she lost them. She meets a princely Baron, Vittorio de Sica, and romance slowly blooms. Meanwhile, the earrings she has sold keep turning up in her life only to haunt her. The three leads are wonderful, as is the atmosphere in this luxuriously elegant French film. The change in Darrieux's feelings for the earrings keeps the film fascinating throughout. The emotions of all the characters are presented in a romantic, yet somehow realistic nature.