#madame de…

[rystiel]

i keep seeing people say the doctor shouldn’t have feelings for rogue because he’s married to river…? river song… who has also married multiple people… one of the most polyamorous characters in the show…?

[geeburieru]

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time watch challenge #7 - Madame de…, directedy by Max Orphus, 1953 (film =90 out of 100)

The next group of tied films are just as varied as the films tied for 95th place on this list and I’m starting this batch with Madame de…. by Max Orphus, also known as The Earings of Madame de… here in the states. The film tells the story of Louise, an aristocratic woman who is married to a high ranking general in the French army. The marriage between these two resembles a companionship rather than a relationship, with the two being childless and sleeping in separate rooms. The core drama is centered around a pair of earrings that were gifted to Louise by her husband on their wedding day, which she sells back to the jeweler who made them and then pretends to have lost. The earrings keep reappearing and disappearing throughout the film, representing loneliness, indifference, love, desperation, and obsession all at different points depending on who has given the earrings to whom and why the earrings are forced to move hands once again.

Orphus’ camerawork is so delicate and fine-tuned here. I think it’s rather rare to see a camera that centers a woman like this in the time it was made. A lot of these French romances of the time period tended to focus on a male character’s feelings on a woman, but that’s not the case here. Orphus puts Louise’s feelings first and foremost, with the opening moments of the film focusing on just her hands as she moves through her jewelry trying to decide what she wants to keep and what she wants to get rid off, finally settling in on a view of how she looks in the mirror, holding the earrings to her face. This way of moving the camera and taking control of the space in order to center things on Louise is carried out even in how Orphus weaves the camera in and out of rooms. There’s so many fantastic ways he uses objects as barriers both in shots and as metaphors for the society that Louise, her husband, and her new lover live in.

In the 2012 list, Madame de… was tied for 93rd place with nine other films. Most of these films also made jumps higher in the list and those that didn’t fell off in favor of more recent films and first time appearances thanks to the wider voting base for the 2022 list. I do find it interesting that despite how different Madame de… is from the other films it shared 93rd place with in 2012 is that it made the smallest jump this year even though the expanded voting range theoretically should’ve allowed it to rise much higher in the rankings like other women-centric films did this time around.

[pxmlx]

“Fucking idiots” I mutter to myself while reading (for the millionth time) about two dumbasses clearly in love with each other CONVINCED that their feelings are one sided

[lutheban]

None of them are equivalent to eachother but you get the point

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Marcel Verdier (French, 1817–1856) Mary Matthews, Madame Julien-Francois-Bertrand de La Chere (1824-1890), 1843 National Trust, Sizergh Castle

[lescarnetsdehaku]

1833 Mean Girls

[lyxchee-art]

Idk if I did this accurately

[bemp0]

Pose Patrol

[gacougnol]

Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, by Dora Kallmus (Madame D'Ora)

[diioonysus]

blue + art

[arinewman7]

Portrait de Madame Allan Bott

Tamara de Lempicka

[pobodleru]

Dear friends, today is my birthday, and I would be glad to see your reblogs of my arts and some kind words for me ❤️‍🔥

[tatert07s]

Madame de Fer ✨

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[tshortik]

Madame de Fer

[fried-piranha]

farewell.

[illusivesoul]

Another thing cause I'm still salty. You're telling me that a mage becoming Divine of the Southern Chantry wouldn't change the dynamics between Tevinter and southern Thedas? That we're going to be walking around Minrathous in Veilguard and no one will bring up the southern mage Divine?

Ok then.