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Lola Montes [DVD]

Martine Carol (Actor), Peter Ustinov (Actor, Writer), Max Ophls (Director, Writer) Rated:
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3.8 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
IMDb7.2/10.0
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Max Ophüls explores the scandalous life of dancer and courtesan Lola Montes with a bittersweet empathy that turns melodrama into a tragic melancholy masterpiece. Using the theatrical re-creation of Lola's life in a big-top pageant as a framing device, Ophüls contrasts the outrageous sensationalism of her reputation with poignant, poetic flashbacks that explore her many affairs, most notably with Franz Liszt (Will Quadflieg) and King Ludwig of Bavaria (Anton Walbrook). Lola's greatest tragedy is that she loved well, if not too wisely. If Martine Carol's central performance is lacking passion, as many critics have argued, her quiet, at times seemingly passive demeanor makes her a veritable prisoner of her society and her reputation. Swept along by Ophüls's sweeping camerawork, which glides through the film in a balance of intimacy and contemplative remove as if on the wings of angels, her life becomes like a cinematic ballet with Ophüls the choreographer and conductor. Peter Ustinov costars as the jaded circus ringmaster, who nightly narrates her exploits to a throng of scandal-hungry spectators, while she performs with a face hardened in indifference, resigned to her empty role as a figure of spectacle in a garish gilded cage. Shot in delicate color and impeccably composed widescreen compositions throughout by Ophüls's regular cinematographer Christian Matras, Lola Montes is his most beautiful and restrained film, a fitting swan song for one of the cinema's most sensitive directors. --Sean Axmaker

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Max Ophls
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1955
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol, Lise Delamare, Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Fox Lorber
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 630522885X
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Annette Wademant, Ccil Saint-Laurent, Claude Heymann, Franz Geiger, Jacques Natanson
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Best Sellers Rank: #153,858 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 out of 5 stars 107 ratings

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3.8 out of 5 stars
107 global ratings

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  • Cody K.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a restored version is on the way!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2009
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    Enough's been said here about this love-it-or-hate-it Ophuls opus (I'm in the love-it camp). All we've had to look at for years have been washed out prints in repertory cinemas and the washed-out Fox-Lorber DVD, soon to be forgotten. Criterion is releasing the restored 'Lola Montes' on February 16th, 2010 on both DVD and blu-ray. I've seen some clips of the restoration and the colors once again look as ravishing as they were originally meant to be. Several minutes of missing footage have been restored, and there will be lots of extras:

    * New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
    * Audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White
    * "Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner," a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes 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 Montès
    * Silent footage of actress Martine Carol demonstrating the various glamorous hairstyles in Lola Montès
    * Theatrical rerelease trailer from Rialto Pictures
    * New and improved English subtitle translation
    * PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Gary Giddins

    For those who love this film, I do believe this is what we've been waiting for!
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  • Martin Chorich
    5.0 out of 5 stars Let's Not be Too Picky
    Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2000
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    Some reviewers on this site have blasted this transfer for low video and sound quality. Frankly, this caused me to hesitate several months before plunking down the cash to see this. Since the art house revival scene is dying out and you would never find this in the local Ballbuster, I realized that this was the only chance I had to see this movie--by reputation an overlooked classic.
    I hit the play button last night with a certain trepidation, mentally preparing myself to view a badly worn relic. Fortunately, the "low technical quality" rumors are much overblown. Yes, this is a 45 year old color film that did not see loving restoration in its DVD transfer. Nonetheless, color, resolution and sound rate a B or B+, but you would have to be a churlish obsessive to complain about it. The miracle is that you can get this film at all in eminently watchable condition.
    I suppose Oedipal elder abuse was a good publicity strategy for establishing street cred for the new wave, but Lola Montes provides convincing evidence that the French movie landscape of the early 50's has been unfairly denigrated as a musty dead end. Lola Montes is a high energy, exuberantly theatrical, cinematic tour de force on the same exalted level as Rules of the Game or Children of Paradise that testifies that the old wave went out in a blaze of glory, not sclerosis.
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  • Barbara Nichols
    4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, somewhat ponderous rendition of a fascinating life
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2008
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    Lola was a wildly creative woman who kept reinventing herself to meet her ever-changing needs. Passionate, headstrong, opportunistic, shameless, amoral, she essentially flipped a not-so-ladylike finger at a repressive society and lived a fascinating life that today would garner headlines but lift few eyebrows. Her life story might even seem somewhat inspiring today -- how in the world did she have the strength? The nerve?

    This gorgeous movie made in the fifties has little shock and awe factor now but back then we would have viewed it from behind our (figurative) fans. Oh my wasn't she naughty, wink wink--an attitude younger viewers probably won't understand. Today the film is definitely worth a look as a stylized piece of art. Martine Carrol, who was many times more beautiful than Lola was, did all she could do with the script, seductive and calculating early on, and later, when she became a circus act, playing the part as if she were a Ziegfeld girl, silent behind her glorious figure and feathers . Lola is presented as an object of shame, a circus act to titillate the worst and derive pity from the best, while Peter Ustinov's ringmaster acts as a mirror reflecting the hypocrisy of society.

    I was delighted to see a very young Oskar Werner -- one of the great actors of all time, known for his starring roles in Ship of Fools and the wonderful Jules and Jim. Here he plays a pivotal role as the schoolboy seducee who rallies to save his beloved though she had cast him aside in favor of the king.

    Yes, the disc has its problems, but not so many that the beauty of the film is lost. It was nominated for an academy award for art direction, well deserved. The .film's exaggerated lushness means that I won't watch it often, but yes, again and perhaps then again.

    To get a more objective look at the life of Lola Montez, I highly recommend Bruce Seymour's excellent biography, "Lola Montez" available at Amazon:

    http://www.amazon.com/Lola-Montez-Life-Bruce-Seymour/dp/0300074395/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206650278&sr=1-1
    11 people found this helpful
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  • philrob
    1.0 out of 5 stars Fox=crafty, sly, or clever person, but...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2003
    ...Fox-Lorber can be credited with sly only, for releasing this lack of quality even Madacy would be ashamed of.
    The 1 star is because of this release. Maybe they don't know yet that DVD technology allow for subtitles as a choice option, and maybe their budget was too short to get them right (one quarter is accurate, one quarter is approximate, one quarter is absolute fancy, and one quarter has escaped translation. But the worse is the (absence of) quality of the picture which is perfectly matched by a botched soundtrack.
    Until Criterion or some real professional in DVD business will take care of getting this released as it should be, better to avoid this one.
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  • Flavio Menardi
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ophuls: un grande
    Reviewed in Italy on December 21, 2020
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    Per chi vuole conoscere peelicole quasi introvabili di un grandissimo regista di cui ogni opera è un capolavoro. Crepuscolare e romantico in un mix che a volte sembra quasi frivolo ma, in realtà, è profondissimo. Per palati fini che sanno apprezzare il cinema di una volta. Così non se ne fa più.
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  • Jutta Weber
    5.0 out of 5 stars Schöner Film, große Humanität!
    Reviewed in Germany on May 17, 2020
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    Einer der schönsten Filme die es gibt! Ungewöhnlich schön und von großer Menschlichkeit.
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  • hara maria
    3.0 out of 5 stars 歴史は女で作られる
    Reviewed in Japan on February 21, 2014
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    歴史は女で作られる。タイトルは面白いと思ったが内容は保存するような作品ではなかった。
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  • JF7588
    5.0 out of 5 stars Genius in colour
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2009
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    This is the last film made by Ophuls - a true genius of the cinema whose work becomes better and more moving with each decade that passes. It was a troubled film, castigated and butchered on release - at least 40 mins were cut. It isnt perfect, but it is a dream of a how perfect a film might be. For this reason, it is a film best watched after the inestimable Le Plaisir, the fabulous La Ronde, the spellbinding Madame de, the exceptional Caught and, perhaps the best intro to Ophuls, Letter from an Unknown Woman. See these films because, unlike Lola, they are wholly achieved pieces of cinema, and then see how Lola is an attempt to transcend them. This doesn't mean that Lola Montes needs a primer to be enjoyed, rather that its beauty is the greater for knowing the path that led to its making. It's a movie aching with intent to summarise the maker's philosophy. It is epic in scale. It is in colour - the only Ophuls film that is - and it is an old man's dream of how life loops back on itself, a meditation of love, loss and fame, on freedom and imprisonment. Ophuls's use of the camera - those prowling tracking shots - is as eloquent as cinema gets. Praise the Lord, it is available on DVD at last. One of my wishes granted. Next up, please - Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc - now that would be a great double bill with Lola
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  • Mª Luisa Mora
    5.0 out of 5 stars pelicula de arte y ensayo,pienso que solo para cinefilos
    Reviewed in Spain on December 28, 2023
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    es buena la direccion y la interpretacion....pelicula muy interesante aunque creo que mas para cinefilos.
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