Max Ophüls' 1955 masterpiece gets a superb restoration
di Kevin Thomas The Los Angeles Times
Max Ophüls' 1955 "Lola Montès" was a box office flop, butchered by its producers, then restored as much as possible by producer Pierre Braunberger in 1968. And, now, 40 years later, his daughter Laurence has overseen a superb state-of-the-art restoration. Ophüls' last film and first in color is the most baroque of his sumptuous period pictures -- and to many critics, his greatest.
It is framed by a fictional device, an elaborate circus, in which a dying Lola (Martine Carol) participates in a series of tableaux dramatizing her scandalous career as an internationally popular Spanish dancer with a notorious private life. [...]
di Kevin Thomas, articolo completo (2251 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 10 ottobre 2008
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