Friday, 10 April 2009

Madame de... (1953), Max Ophuls

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046022/

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The most ornate black-and-white backdrops I've ever seen. Those mirrored wardrobes I'll probably remember forever.

A superficial and self-sufficient, pleasant and complacent world, populated by equally superficial and self-sufficient, pleasant and complacent characters, where passions are polite, conflicts chivalrous and nothing can truly go wrong, until it does, just when you've been sufficiently lulled into not seeing it coming. Kind of like life sometimes.

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