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LOLA MONTES
1955
Director
Max Ophüls
Starring
Martine Carol
Peter Ustinov
Anton Walbrook
Runtime
114 minutes
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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 Ophüls 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. Ophüls' 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.
"A bodice-ripper invested with the profundity of a Stendhal novel, LOLA MONTES is also Ophüls’s definite commentary on movie-watching, his boldest vision of film as a medium that reveres beauty in order to both nurture and mock dreams. After their own sobering affair with the film, viewers are left to echo Liszt’s compliment to Lola: 'Thank you for the illusion.'" - Fernando F. Croce
"A bodice-ripper invested with the profundity of a Stendhal novel, LOLA MONTES is also Ophüls’s definite commentary on movie-watching, his boldest vision of film as a medium that reveres beauty in order to both nurture and mock dreams. After their own sobering affair with the film, viewers are left to echo Liszt’s compliment to Lola: 'Thank you for the illusion.'" - Fernando F. Croce