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Lola Montès is a 1955 historical romance film and the last completed film of German-born director Max Ophüls. Based on the novel La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montès by Cécil Saint-Laurent, the film depicts the life of Irish dancer and courtesan Lola Montez (1821–1861), portrayed by Martine Carol, and tells the story of the most famous of ...
Lola Montès: Directed by Max Ophüls. With Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol. When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Max Ophüls
- 1955-12-23
His story involves the infamous Lola Montes, "The Most Scandalous Woman in the World," the mistress of Franz Liszt and King Ludwig of Bavaria, of students and artists, of soldiers and ringmasters. We find her in a New Orleans circus, the star attraction in a review of her sensational career.
Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol.
- Lola Montès
Max 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.
- 3 min
- 107.7K
- criterioncollection
Nov 3, 2009 · Director Max Ophuls' 1955 masterpiece Lola Montes is now as much the stuff of legend as its title character, the notorious 19th century dancer and seductress whose affair with King Ludwig I of Bavaria helped inspire a revolution. And on its first release it was almost as much the subject of scandal as Montes had been during her lifetime.
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Directed by Max Ophuls • 1955 • France, West Germany. Starring Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov. LOLA MONTÈS is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol.
