Of all the movies I've seen, I consider those listed below the most elegant. Most are in black and white and most are from one or the other Catholic director. (Boleslawski, Bresson, Ford, Hitchcock, McCarey, and Scorsese were/are Catholic. Ophuls was not.)
For the time being at least, I have listed the films in alphabetical order rather than ranked them:
An Affair to Remember (1957, Leo McCarey)
I Confess (1953, Alfred Hitchcock)
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese)
The Earrings of Madame de (1953, Max Ophuls)
The Fugitive (1947, John Ford)
The Garden of Allah (1936, Ryszard Boleslawski)
The Painted Veil (1934, Ryszard Boleslawski)
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Which one do you think is the very best?
I like each one of them almost equally, so it's difficult for me to rank them.
I am planning to bring the list up to ten and then write reviews of those I haven't yet reviewed. Maybe by the time I finish that, one will emerge as the clear winner.
What about the 1936 version of Camille with Garbo and Robert Taylor?
I think there are many good things about Camille (1936). Unfortunately, I don't think the movie qualifies as elegant. Garbo's costumes and hairdos were poorly done and the behavior of her friends was often grotesque.
What is really wonderful about the film is the sequence toward the end where the priest brings Garbo the last sacraments. Before the priest leaves Garbo's bedroom, we hear the bells alerting the people in the outer room to the approach of the Blessed Sacrament. Everyone falls to his or her knees -- a terrific Catholic scene!
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