Lola Montes (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
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Blu-ray Details
- 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 | Max Ophüls & Annette Wademant | |
Composition by | Georges Auric | |
Produced by | Ralph Baum | |
Director of Photography: | Christian Matras |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Lola Montes is mainly a triumph of vibrancy and metaphor. Nonetheless it's quite an experience.
Chicago Tribune
Ophuls... contrasts the outrageous sensationalism of her reputation... with offstage moments of tender candor and poignant, poetic flashbacks
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Seanax.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
"...lingers as a sensational fever dream."
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LarsenOnFilm
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
[T]his work of overwhelming visual excess truly soars due to the director's legendarily meticulous and expressive camera movements.
Film Comment
This exacting and sumptuous restoration of Max Ophüls's last film, from 1955, recovers not just the movie's look but also its meaning.
New Yorker
Rating: 9/10 --
The net result is pure Ophuls, his signature recognizable in nearly every scene and, despite its very poor initial reception, one hell of a movie.
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Movie Metropolis
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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