1955 · drama · romance
Lola Montès
Directed by Max Ophüls1h 56m1955
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Our read: Lola Montès (1955) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- signature
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