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Lola Montes
Oct 10, 2008 – Oct 30, 2008
Daily (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 & 10pm)
Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
$10
With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montes, 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.
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