La Ronde
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Directed by Max Ophüls.
With Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Gèrard Philippe.
France, 1950, 35mm, black & white, 97 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA
With Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Gèrard Philippe.
France, 1950, 35mm, black & white, 97 min.
French with English subtitles.
Print source: HFA
Based on Arthur Schnitzler's play, which depicts love as a bitterly comic merry-go-round, La Ronde was deemed "immoral" by American censors and was banned from entering the country for many years. Told in ten sketches in which an interconnecting group of lovers changes partners until the liaisons come full circle, La Ronde is a perfect example of Ophüls' wit and elegant amorality, as well as the unmatched mastery of his fluid mise-en-scéne. Despite its censorship problems, the film was a great box-office success in France, Britain, and North America—not the least, perhaps, because of its all-star cast, which, in addition to Walbrook, Signoret and Philippe, includes Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux and Jean-Louis Barrault.
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