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Based on the novel La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montès by Cécil Saint-Laurent, the film depicts the life of Irish dancer and courtesan Lola Montez (1821–1861), portrayed by Martine Carol, and tells the story of the most famous of her many notorious affairs, those with Franz Liszt and Ludwig I of Bavaria.
- La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montès, by Cécil Saint-Laurent
- Albert Caraco
Lola Montès: Directed by Max Ophüls. With Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol. When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
- (5.8K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Max Ophüls
- 1955-12-23
Advertisement. His story involves the infamous Lola Montes, "The Most Scandalous Woman in the World," the mistress of Franz Liszt and King Ludwig of Bavaria, of students and artists, of soldiers and ringmasters. We find her in a New Orleans circus, the star attraction in a review of her sensational career.
Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and showgirl, played by Martine Carol. With his customary cinematographic flourish and, for the first time, vibrant color, Max Ophuls charts the course of Montès’s scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster ...
- Lola Montès
82% 34 Reviews Tomatometer 77% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Once, Lola Montes (Martine Carol) was a famous cabaret dancer and the lover of many of 19th-century Europe's most prominent men. Now...
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- Martine Carol
- Max Ophuls
- Drama
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Feb 7, 2010 · Ophuls’s final film, Lola Montès is at once a magnificent romantic melodrama, a meditation on the lurid fascination with celebrity, and a one-of-a-kind movie spectacle. Picture 7/10. Max Ophuls’ Lola Montès was a critical and financial disaster upon its initial release back in 1955.
Nov 3, 2009 · Director Max Ophuls' 1955 masterpiece Lola Montes is now as much the stuff of legend as its title character, the notorious 19th century dancer and seductress whose affair with King Ludwig I of Bavaria helped inspire a revolution. And on its first release it was almost as much the subject of scandal as Montes had been during her lifetime.
