1950 · drama · romance · comedy
La Ronde
Directed by Max Ophüls1h 35m1950
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Our read: La Ronde (1950) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive drama · romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
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- signature
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