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Frankrijk / West-Duitsland
Drama
110 minuten

geregisseerd door Max Oph�ls
met Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov en Anton Walbrook

Lola Montes trouwt - om te voorkomen dat ze aan een oude bankier wordt uitgehuwelijkt - met de minnaar van haar moeder. Ze wordt vervolgens danseres en beroemd. Als geliefde van koning Ludwig I veroorzaakt ze een revolutie, maar ze eindigt als attractie in een circus als "de beruchtste vrouw van de eeuw".

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LOLA MONTES (1955)
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User Rating:   7.3/10   1,238 votes

Criterion Collection # 503

DVD RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 2010




Director: Max Ophuls


Description
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Lola Montes is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montes's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophuls's final film, Lola Montes is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.

Ophuls was deeply hurt by the poor reception of "Lola Montes" as well as its manhandling by studio hacks, and it turned out to be his final film. Ophuls died in 1957 from heart disease and wouldn't live to see the film restored both physically and critically.

Andrew Sarris famously proclaimed "Lola Montes" to be "the greatest film ever made." That's a difficult position to defend, but it's certainly one of Ophuls' finest moments. And thanks to an extensive, decades-long restoration effort it has been preserved for new generations. Unlike the Lola of the film, "Lola Montes" has been set free to bask in well-deserved glory forever.


READ:
Loving Lola
by Gary Giddins
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Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 6.45 + 3.91 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 115 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1 | Anamorphic Widescreen 

Sound (main feature): English DD3.0 (to preserve original quality of 4-track magnetic stereo, an early surround sound technology then only available with CinemaScope).

Subtitles: optional English


DISC FEATURES:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# Audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White.
# 'Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner,' a 1965 episode of the French television program Cineastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of Ophuls's collaborators.
# Max by Marcel, a new documentary by Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of Lola Montes.
# Silent footage of actress Martine Carol briefly demonstrating the various glamorous hairstyles in Lola Montes.
# Theatrical rerelease trailer from Rialto Pictures.
# New and improved English subtitle translation.



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