La ronde
France
1950
97 Min
Black and White
French
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Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls’s delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s controversial turn-of-the-century play Reigen. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats—all are on equal footing in this multicharacter merry-go-round of love and infidelity, directed with a sweeping gaiety as knowingly frivolous as it is enchanting, and shot with Ophuls’s trademark mellifluous cinematography. –The Criterion Collection
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The Auteurs
12Dec09
Now playing in many countries all over the world, Max Ophuls's resplendent, star-studded masterpiece of love and desire
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By Adam Suraf on November 30, 2008
Director Max Ophuls is best known for four films made in France following a war imposed exile to Hollywood, films that examine the decadence and sexual politics of turn-of-the-century Paris with a… read review
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