
The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès, a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European men.... (Full plot summary below)
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The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès, a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European men.
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| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirIn some odd way, the huge production scale and marvelous widescreen color scheme make Lola Montès seem more distant and artificial than Ophüls' smaller-scale black-and-white films. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrSeen on a big screen, this is a movie to get drunk on. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt is all of a piece from beginning to end: The mood, the music, the remarkably fluid camera movement, the sets, the costumes. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThis exacting and sumptuous restoration of Max Ophüls's last film, from 1955, recovers not just the movie's look but also its meaning. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongThe net result is pure Ophuls, his signature recognizable in nearly every scene and, despite its very poor initial reception, one hell of a movie. |
| Seanax.comSean AxmakerOphuls... contrasts the outrageous sensationalism of her reputation... with offstage moments of tender candor and poignant, poetic flashbacks |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasMax Ophüls' 1955 masterpiece gets a superb restoration. |
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumClassic Ophuls should be seen more--in widescreen too/his last film |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt does need to be seen on the big screen. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeWith all due respect to film critic Andrew Sarris, Max Ophüls' legendary Lola Montès is not 'the greatest film ever made.' |