Jean Galland
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls; this is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay a debt, she sets of a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
2) Lola Montès
Series
Criterion collection volume 503
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.