Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave
773.871.6604
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Lola Montes
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Nov 7, 2008 – Nov 13, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$9.25
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With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montès, netted a touch-up. In this many-hued CinemaScope masterpiece, French sexpot Martine Carol slips into a cabaret-dancer's corset — one unfastened by the likes of Alexandre Dumas, Franz Liszt, and King Ludwig of Bavaria. Ophüls uses the circus (emceed by an exploitative Peter Ustinov) and its anything-goes atmosphere to segue into Lola's many romantic flashbacks — each set apart by Archers-style color schemes. Throughout the beautifully detailed tableaux, Ophüls' acrobatic camera paints Lola's riches-to-rags trajectory, giving the whole affair a majestic gloom.
