Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Still from The Earrings of Madame de..., Courtesy Gene Siskel Film Center
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Saturday June 27, 2009 (3pm)
Thursday July 2, 2009 (6pm)
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$9
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There are other movies (Citizen Kane, The Seventh Seal) that routinely top critics' all-time lists, but rarely does a movie so thoroughly enchant cineastes — and audiences in general — like Max Ophüls' glittering Belle Époque love story. The Earrings of Madame de... swaths a brutally emotional core in sumptuous period finery and cinematic bijoux like the director's constantly-moving camera. When the titular Countess (Danielle Darrieux, never more beautiful) sells a pair of diamond earrings given to her by her husband, she sets off a chain of events that, like the film's famous waltz scene, eventually comes full circle, with tragic results.
