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Lola Montès

Lola Montès

Drama Romance History

1955, Movie, 1h 56min

LOLA MONTÈS is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) of the American circus where she has ended up performing. Ophuls’s final film, LOLA MONTÈS is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle.

Country: France,Germany

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Paulette Dubost,

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9.5

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Critic David Parkinson

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10

Visually gorgeous and yet morally and intellectually political. This is a must-see despite claims of sueprficiality of character.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Noel Murray

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9

For more than 50 years, Lola Montès has been enchanting viewers who enjoy peeling back the layers of Ophüls’ style...

Read full review at The A.V. Club

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Lola Montès include To Hell and Back, Raintree County, Beau Brummell, Houdini, A Tale of Two Cities, Los últimos días de Pompeya (1959).