Lola Montes (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 16, 2010
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Martine Carol & Peter Ustinov | |
Performer: | Oskar Werner & Anton Walbrook | |
Featured: | Will Quadflieg & Paulette Dubost | |
Directed by | Max Ophüls | |
Edited by | Madeleine Gug | |
Screenwriting by | Annette Wademant & Max Ophüls | |
Composition by | Georges Auric | |
Produced by | Ralph Baum | |
Director of Photography: | Christian Matras |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
as Lola, Martine Carol should compel our attention, but instead merely toys with it
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Q Network Film Desk
...It still looks so modern -- saving that there is no one around any more who can combine such flamboyant spectacle with such fluidity, dexterity, lightness, invention...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
With all due respect to film critic Andrew Sarris, Max Ophüls' legendary Lola Montès is not 'the greatest film ever made.'
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ophuls... contrasts the outrageous sensationalism of her reputation... with offstage moments of tender candor and poignant, poetic flashbacks
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Seanax.com
...Ophuls' camera swirls around, catching all the action and coarse pageantry, and the effect is invigorating...
Los Angeles Times
[T]his work of overwhelming visual excess truly soars due to the director's legendarily meticulous and expressive camera movements.
Film Comment
A love affair on wheels is a nice idea but this over-decorated vehicle is the hub for eight minor events which are nothing but crazy make-up, improbability, and an ordeal of graceless acting.
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Artforum
Product Description:
LOLA MONTES, the last film by Max Ophüls, is one of the most celebrated examples of both wide screen CinemaScope and lush Technicolor in film history. Added to this is Ophüls' usual use of sweeping crane shots and angled tracking shots, making this a beautiful, creative film. It is the story of Lola Montes (Martine Carol), the 19th Century dancer who was famous for her scandalous affairs with everyone from Franz List (Will Quadflieg) to Ludwig, the King of Bavaria (Anton Walbrook). At the end of her career she was the main attraction at a circus in the United States which featured a lavish tableaux of scenes from her life. The ringmaster, played by Peter Ustinov, leads the circus audience through her life, and also cues the cinematic flashbacks. Ophüls had used a similar structure in his adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play REIGEN in his film LA RONDE. Here, although not in chronological order, the flashbacks span Lola's life, covering everything from her early unhappy marriage to a drunken military officer, who she leaves to embark on a career as a dancer, to a very short affair with a German student played by a young Oskar Werner. Ophüls, with his always-moving camera, gives the story a wonderful sense of historical drama.
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