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Lola Montès
Directed by
Max Ophüls
Not Rated
1955
1h 56m
Drama
,
Romance
,
and more
7.2
82%
77%
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The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès, a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European men.
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Cast of Lola Montès
Martine Carol
Lola Montes
Peter Ustinov
Circus Master
Anton Walbrook
King Ludwig I of Bavaria
Henri Guisol
Horsema Maurice
Lise Delamare
Lola's Mother
Paulette Dubost
Josephine, The Maid
Oskar Werner
Student
Jean Galland
Private Secretary
Will Quadflieg
Franz Liszt
Héléna Manson
Lieutenant James' Sister
Germaine Delbat
Stewardess
Carl Esmond
Doctor
Jacques Fayet
Steward
Friedrich Domin
Circus Manager
Werner Finck
Maler Wisböck
Ivan Desny
Leutnant James
Ady Berber
Bulgakov
Margarete Haagen
Anna
Walter Kiaulehn
Theatre Manager
Willy Rösner
Prime Minister
Elinor von Wallerstein
Queen
Daniel Mendaille
Captain
Eddy Debray
Captain
Claude Pinoteau
Conductor Claudio Pirotto
Max Ophüls
Director / Writer
Jacques Natanson
Writer
Franz Geiger
Writer
Annette Wademant
Writer
André Haguet
Producer
Albert Caraco
Producer
Anton Schelkopf
Producer
Lola Montès Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
This exacting and sumptuous restoration of Max Ophls's last film, from 1955, recovers not just the movie's look but also its meaning.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
"...lingers as a sensational fever dream."
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
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.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
as Lola, Martine Carol should compel our attention, but instead merely toys with it
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
Ophuls... contrasts the outrageous sensationalism of her reputation... with offstage moments of tender candor and poignant, poetic flashbacks
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
The matters that made the real Lola an extraordinary woman are omitted completely; we are given only the picture of a woman turned to sexual adventuring by her mother's callousness.
Washington Post
John Anderson
Watch Lola Montes and you may never watch a movie the same way again.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Lola Montes is mainly a triumph of vibrancy and metaphor. Nonetheless it's quite an experience.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Seen on a big screen, this is a movie to get drunk on.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
With all due respect to film critic Andrew Sarris, Max Ophls' legendary Lola Monts is not 'the greatest film ever made.'
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Max Ophls' 1955 masterpiece gets a superb restoration.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
In some odd way, the huge production scale and marvelous widescreen color scheme make Lola Monts seem more distant and artificial than Ophls' smaller-scale black-and-white films.
Variety
Variety Staff
Some fetching period observation appears from time to time, but life is rarely breathed into this frilly opus.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
A baroque masterpiece by Max Ophuls, his last film (1955) and his only work in color and wide-screen.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I recommend Lola Monts wholeheartedly both for its sensuous delights and its ever exquisite artistry.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Ophls' style co-stars, paralleling and reinforcing stage artificiality with tracking and crane and pan shots, fluidly tilting to emphasize romance as opposed to "reality."
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
A bodice-ripper invested with the profundity of a Stendhal novel, Lola Montes is also, even more than La Ronde, Ophls's definite commentary on movie-watching.
Classic Film and Television
Michael E. Grost
One of the most beautiful films ever made.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is all of a piece from beginning to end: The mood, the music, the remarkably fluid camera movement, the sets, the costumes.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Ophls makes the story of Lola Montes (Martine Carol), the successful nineteenth-century courtesan (if only so-so Spanish fandango dancer), into a visually dazzling, ironic commentary on celebrity.
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