The romantic misadventures of the continental European upper class of the nineteenth century? Making use of expertly-machined narrative devices that play with pattern, coincidence, and repetition? Sounds to me like director Max Ophüls has gone and made another movie. A pair of diamond earrings are sold to discreetly pay off a debt… and that should have been enough. But sometimes, the earrings come back.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi (1988).