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Bill Hader recommended The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) in Movies (curated)

 
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
1953 | Drama, Romance
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"Thanks to Criterion, I could finally see the Max Ophuls movies I’d been reading about for years. The story of Madame de . . . on paper doesn’t really interest me, but in the hands of Ophuls, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, and the great Vittorio De Sica (who’s not only a fantastic director and one of the fathers of neorealism, he’s also damn suave), it’s a movie that truly amazed me. I could watch those dancing scenes for hours."

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Paul Morrissey recommended The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) in Movies (curated)

 
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
1953 | Drama, Romance
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"Another example of magnificent filmmaking, wherein the performances of Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, and Vittorio De Sica and the direction of Max Ophuls are so perfect that it almost stands alone in a category of romantic European filmmaking. Ophuls’s great fame rests mostly on the extraordinary directorial control he brings to this special film. It seems the most quintessential French film ever made, based on a story by the French Louise de Vilmorin, but it was directed by the German Ophuls. Americans, sensibly enough, never really tried to do this kind of film."

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Michael Lindsay-Hogg recommended Il General Della Rovere (1959) in Movies (curated)

 
Il General Della Rovere (1959)
Il General Della Rovere (1959)
1959 | Drama, War
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"Sometimes I think the greatest movie. Inexorable in its working out. Vittorio de Sica unbeatable as a WWII small time crook who goes along to get along and then finds himself having to be brave, not something he's ever wanted to be. The most horrific scene where a partisan is taken into a room to be tortured. Door shuts. Conversation goes on in a room outside, Nazi officer, collaborators, idle and casual, a few drinks, nothing heard from inside. Then the door opens. Has to be seen, this movie."

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