Lola Montes
by Max Oph?ls
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Actor: Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare, Martine Carol, Peter UstinovDirector: Max Oph?ls
Writer: Peter Ustinov
Writer: Max Oph?ls
Writer: Annette Wademant
Writer: Claude Heymann
Writer: C?cil Saint-Laurent
Writer: Franz Geiger
Writer: Jacques Natanson
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Lola Montes
Movie Review: a masterpiece for all to enjoy
Summary: 5 Stars
"Lola Montes", the last movie from French director Max Ophuls, is about a courtesan's colorful but tragic life. The fact that she is displayed and marketed in the circus shows society's contempt for her lifestyle. The movie is colorful and the sweeping camera view is a sight to behold. It reminds me of a novel by Kafka, about some people being displayed at the zoo, and others go there to see them. She is at once celebrated and degraded at the circus, but definitely more humiliated. I don't know if it is the best movie, "Casablanca", "Citizen Kane" probably are winning that race. But it is a very fascinating movie. Maybe we are all displayed in the circus like Lola Montes, we just don't know about it. Highly recommended to all.
Summary of Lola Montes
Max Oph?ls explores the scandalous life of dancer and courtesan Lola Montes with a bittersweet empathy that turns melodrama into a tragic melancholy masterpiece. Using the theatrical re-creation of Lola's life in a big-top pageant as a framing device, Oph?ls contrasts the outrageous sensationalism of her reputation with poignant, poetic flashbacks that explore her many affairs, most notably with Franz Liszt (Will Quadflieg) and King Ludwig of Bavaria (Anton Walbrook). Lola's greatest tragedy is that she loved well, if not too wisely. If Martine Carol's central performance is lacking passion, as many critics have argued, her quiet, at times seemingly passive demeanor makes her a veritable prisoner of her society and her reputation. Swept along by Oph?ls's sweeping camerawork, which glides through the film in a balance of intimacy and contemplative remove as if on the wings of angels, her life becomes like a cinematic ballet with Oph?ls the choreographer and conductor. Peter Ustinov costars as the jaded circus ringmaster, who nightly narrates her exploits to a throng of scandal-hungry spectators, while she performs with a face hardened in indifference, resigned to her empty role as a figure of spectacle in a garish gilded cage. Shot in delicate color and impeccably composed widescreen compositions throughout by Oph?ls's regular cinematographer Christian Matras, Lola Montes is his most beautiful and restrained film, a fitting swan song for one of the cinema's most sensitive directors. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International DVD Video
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