Madame de's first name is Louise, and her last name is never revealed. So we'll just call her Louise. She's very rich and pretty, but at the same time greedy and selfish and a shopaholic as well looking at her closet. She's amassed quite a bit of shopping debt so she decides to pawn her earrings. Everyone at some point in time has had to pawn something to pay off a bill. The struggle is real. However, the earrings she chooses were a wedding present from her husband, even though she's not fond of the style.
The whole problem comes from Louise's inability to tell the truth. Her husband is obviously wealthy, but has no idea of what debt she may owe or why. Well we know why - she shops too much but he doesn't know that. It's not like they had online bank receipts back then. She makes this huge show about losing her earrings at a theatre so much that it makes the news. But her lie is revealed quite quickly. Now that her husband has the earrings, he gives them to his mistress who is traveling to Constantinople.
Let's talk about how awful Louise and her husband's relationship really is. They not only sleep in separate beds, they're straight up sleeping in separate rooms. He had a mistress, and she's sweet on a hot Italian diplomat named Donati. And they have no problem constantly lying to one another.
One of the reasons Louise falls for Donati is because he dances with her at every social gathering. Certain husbands refuse to dance with their wives and it can be frustrating. We don't care if you "don't have rhythm", if you don't dance with us we'll find someone who will.
Donati purchases the diamond earrings and gives them to Louise, not knowing they were originally hers. This makes her husband hella mad.
Louise's husband becomes jealous of her love interest and challenges him to a duel. This isn't fair because he's a general with combat training and a duel isn't going to be a challenge. So, her husband thinks its okay to have a mistress but his wife can't even look at another man? Typical men. He shoots Donati and kills him with one shot. Meanwhile, Louise tries to stop them but she is too late. I think the film is very well shot, and the costumes are beautiful. I will give it an 8/10.
Wow, this movie made very little sense to me. I cannot help thinking that these people are very stupid. Get a divorce, knock your self out at parties and stop making a fuss of it. Contrived sums it up.
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