The love story is movingly tender, interspersed with appealing humor. The suspense built up through complications over a pair of earrings is engrossing.

A superb film and a matchless trio of performances.

Slighter and more emotionally distant than Ophls's masterpiece 'Letter from an Unknown Woman', but filled with a similar mood of romantic despair and desperation.

The virtuosity of his camera technique enables [Ophuls] to present complex, many-layered material so fast that we may be charmed and dazzled by his audacity and hardly aware of how much he is telling us.