Lola Montes (1955)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:20
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.7/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: LOLA MONTES, the last film by Max Ophüls, is one of the most celebrated examples of both wide screen CinemaScope and lush Technicolor in film history. Added to this is Ophüls' usual use of sweeping... [More]
Starring: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner
Director: Max Ophuls
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Reviews for Lola Montes
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Watch Lola Montes and you may never watch a movie the same way again. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Lola Montes is mainly a triumph of vibrancy and metaphor. Nonetheless it's quite an experience. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Seen on a big screen, this is a movie to get drunk on. Full Review |
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4/5 |
With all due respect to film critic Andrew Sarris, Max Ophüls' legendary Lola Montès is not 'the greatest film ever made.' Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Max Ophüls' 1955 masterpiece gets a superb restoration. Full Review |
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In some odd way, the huge production scale and marvelous widescreen color scheme make Lola Montès seem more distant and artificial than Ophüls’ smaller-scale black-and-white films. Full Review |
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Some fetching period observation appears from time to time, but life is rarely breathed into this frilly opus. Full Review |
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A baroque masterpiece by Max Ophuls, his last film (1955) and his only work in color and wide-screen. Full Review |
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4/6 |
Lola Montès could never be confused for realism in any format: home video, theater or iPod. But its effectiveness as a tragedy relies on Ophüls setting out a luxurious spread for his hapless heroine. Full Review |
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I recommend Lola Montès wholeheartedly both for its sensuous delights and its ever exquisite artistry. Full Review |
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Ophüls' style co-stars, paralleling and reinforcing stage artificiality with tracking and crane and pan shots, fluidly tilting to emphasize romance as opposed to "reality." Full Review |
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4/4 |
A bodice-ripper invested with the profundity of a Stendhal novel, Lola Montes is also, even more than La Ronde, Ophüls's definite commentary on movie-watching. Full Review |
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One of the most beautiful films ever made. Full Review |
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The idea behind this biopic might be brilliant but I didn't see the film's magic onscreen. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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Ophüls conjures that space into life -- indeed, makes it the very subject of his film -- by means of the most sumptuous stylistic effects imaginable. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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3.5/4 |
It is all of a piece from beginning to end: The mood, the music, the remarkably fluid camera movement, the sets, the costumes. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Classic Ophuls should be seen more--in widescreen too/his last film
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