A Pearl Necklace

A Pearl Necklace was produced by Chang Cheng, a company founded by a group of young intellectuals hoping to create a more socially conscious cinema. Based on a Guy de Maupassant novel, the story concerns a family of modest means that’s invited to a dress ball by the wife’s old (and more prosperous) classmate. Hoping to make a good impression, the wife borrows an expensive string of pearls — which, after the ball, goes missing. Faced with social disgrace, it now falls to the husband to come up with a way of replacing the pearls. —Film Society of Lincoln Center